Fox or Hedgehog? - Right Brain vs Left Brain, Generalist vs Specialist, & The Duality of Leo Tolstoy
In the Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), Isaiah Berlin speculates on Leo Tolstoy's inner turmoil. The famous Russian author self-sabotaged his own happiness (Valiunas, 1989). And Berlin suggests Tolstoy's insatiable desire to find life's unifying and absolute truth or principle may have been one of the reasons for his persistent discontent.
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