{"product_id":"2026200017042-secondhand-russian-thinkers","title":"Russian Thinkers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to think freely in an empire built on repression? Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin is a landmark collection of essays that chronicles the intellectual lives of 19th-century Russia's most brilliant and tormented minds — from Tolstoy and Turgenev to Herzen and Bakunin — against the backdrop of Tsarist autocracy and revolutionary ferment. Berlin illuminates the grand drama of ideas that consumed a generation of thinkers caught between the pull of European liberalism and the weight of their own nation's suffering, painting a vivid portrait of a civilization wrestling with its conscience.\n\nBerlin, one of the 20th century's most celebrated intellectual historians, brings to bear his trademark philosophical rigour and elegant prose, transforming what might otherwise be dry history into something urgent and alive. His famous essay on Tolstoy — The Hedgehog and the Fox — alone cements this volume's place in the canon of literary criticism, arguing that Russia's greatest novelist was a man at war with himself, seeking a single unifying truth while perceiving the world in all its irreducible complexity. For anyone seeking to understand the moral and political imagination that forged modern Russia, this collection presents an indispensable and endlessly rewarding journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269353611483,"sku":"2026200017042-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b8be18d0-8c46-4d22-bbb4-89360a677c8b.png?v=1788999256","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017042-secondhand-russian-thinkers","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}