The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953).
Original: «There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision, one system, less or more coherent or articulate, in terms of they wich understand, think and feel - a single, universal, organising principles in terms of wich alone all that they are and say has significance - and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory, connected, if at all, only in de facto way for some psichological o phisiological cause, related to no moral or aehstetic principle. This last lead lives, perform act and entertain ideas that are centrifugal rather than centripetal; their thought is scattered or difused, moving on many levels, seizing upon the essence of a vast variety of expiriences and objects for their are in them-selves, without, consciously or unconsciously, seeking to fit them into, or exclude them from, any one unchanging, all-embracing, sometimes self contradictory and incomplete at the times fanatical, military inner vision. The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.»
Fuente: Berlin, Isaiah. The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History. Second Edition. Editor Henry Hardy. Colaborador Michael Ignatieff. Editorial Princeton University Press, 2013. ISBN 9781400846634. p. 2.
Citas del libro
The Hedgehog and the Fox
Isaiah Berlin
Título original
The Hedgehog and the Fox
(Inglés, 1953)