Name: El erizo y el zorro (in Spanish)
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Author: Isaiah Berlin
ISBN: 9788411002219

portada El erizo y el zorro (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Isaiah Berlin

Publisher

Austral

Collection

Contemporánea

Year

2024

Language

Spanish

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.00 x 12.50

ISBN13

9788411002219

Edited in

España

Synopsis "El erizo y el zorro (in Spanish)"

«Entre los fragmentos conservados del poeta griego Arquíloco, uno dice: ?Muchas cosas sabe el zorro, pero el erizo sabe una sola y grande?. La fórmula, según Isaiah Berlin, puede servir para diferenciar a dos clases de pensadores, de artistas, de seres humanos en general: aquellos que poseen una visión central, sistematizada, de la vida, un principio ordenador en función del cual tienen sentido y se ensamblan los acontecimientos históricos y los menudos sucesos individuales, la persona y la sociedad, y aquellos que tienen una visión dispersa y múltiple de la realidad y de los hombres, que no integran lo que existe en una explicación y orden coherente, pues perciben el mundo como una compleja diversidad. Berlin, luego de formularla, se apresura a prevenirnos contra los peligros de cualquier clasificación de esa naturaleza. En efecto, ellas pueden ser artificiales y hasta absurdas. Pero la suya no lo es. Todo lo contrario: muerde en carne viva y resulta iluminadora para entender dos actitudes ante la vida que se proyectan en todos los campos de la cultura.» Mario Vargas Llosa

Isaiah Berlin

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Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was an influential British philosopher and thinker of Latvian origin, known for his contributions to political theory and the history of ideas. Born in Riga, Latvia, his family emigrated to England in 1921. He studied at the University of Oxford, where he became a fellow of All Souls College and New College, and also founded Wolfson College. During World War II, he worked as a diplomat in Washington and Moscow. He was president of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978 and received various awards for his intellectual work.

His most famous essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), interprets Leon Tolstoy's view of history through an Archilochus metaphor: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Berlin classifies thinkers into two types: the "hedgehogs," who structure their worldview around a single central idea, and the "foxes," who have a more scattered and multiple perspective. According to Berlin, Tolstoy embodies both roles: by his talent, a fox; by his convictions, a hedgehog.

This essay has become an essential work for understanding the different approaches to thought and history.

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