Isaiah Berlin's essay 'The Hedgehog and the Fox'

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gptkbp:instanceOf essay
gptkbp:analyzes Tolstoy's view of history
gptkbp:author gptkb:Isaiah_Berlin
gptkbp:basedOn fragment by Archilochus
gptkbp:explores distinction between hedgehogs and foxes
gptkbp:foxRepresents people who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea
gptkbp:genre essay
literary criticism
gptkbp:hedgehogRepresents people who view the world through the lens of a single defining idea
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Isaiah Berlin's essay 'The Hedgehog and the Fox'
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:philosophy
literary criticism
cultural studies
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:notableIdea hedgehog and fox metaphor
gptkbp:notableQuote The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
gptkbp:publicationYear 1953
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Weidenfeld_&_Nicolson
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Leo_Tolstoy
philosophy of history
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Hedgehog_Concept
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