Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia -the landmark investigation into Russian history and thought
Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In...
Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia -the landmark investigation into Russian history and thought
Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," Berlin considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and others of the Russian intelligentsia, who made up, as Berlin describes, "the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world."
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《London Labour and the London Poor》,《Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann》,《Universal History of Iniquity》,《The Innocents Abroad》,《The Cossacks and Other Stories》 等。
Tolstoy was by nature a fox, but believed in being a hedge dog; that his gifts and achievement are one thing, and his beliefs, and consequently his interpretation of his own achievement, another; and consequently his ideals have led him, and those whom his genius for persuasion has taken in, into a systematic misinterpretation of what he and others were doing or should be diong. (P26) Something...
2021-05-05 17:19:28
Tolstoy was by nature a fox, but believed in being a hedge dog; that his gifts and achievement are one thing, and his beliefs, and consequently his interpretation of his own achievement, another; and consequently his ideals have led him, and those whom his genius for persuasion has taken in, into a systematic misinterpretation of what he and others were doing or should be diong. (P26)
Something is surely amiss here: Tolstoy’s violently unhistorical and indeed anti-historical rejection of all efforts to explain and justify human action and characters in terms of social and individual growth, or ‘roots’ in the past; this side by side with an absorbed and lifelong interest in history, leading to artistic and philosophical results which provoked such queerly disparaging comments from ordinary sane and sympathetic critics. (P32)
[Russian Thinkers] Herzen: ...they (the masses) are still blinded by the arrogant glitter of power, they are offended by those who stand alone...they want a social government to rule for their benefit, and not, like the present one, against it. But to govern themselves doesn't enter their head.(p100) Dulism is for Herzen a confusion of words with facts, the construction of theories employing ab...
Herzen: ...they (the masses) are still blinded by the arrogant glitter of power, they are offended by those who stand alone...they want a social government to rule for their benefit, and not, like the present one, against it. But to govern themselves doesn't enter their head.(p100)
Dulism is for Herzen a confusion of words with facts, the construction of theories employing abstract terms which are not founded in discovered real needs, of political programmes deduced from abstract principles unrelated to real situations. These formulae grow into terrible weapons in the hands of finatical doctrinaries who seek to bind them upon human beings, if need be, by violent vivisection, for the sake of some absolute ideal, for which the sanction lies in some uncritisied an uncriticisable vision - metaphysical, religious, aesthetic; at any rate, unconcerned with the actual needs of actual persons - in the name of which revotionary leaders kill and torture with quiet conscience, because they know that this and this alone is -must be - the solution to all social and political and personal ills. (p101)
柏林论老愤青巴枯宁 Herzen rightly held Bakunin guilty of it, and behind the ardent phrases, the lion-hearted courage, the broad Russian nature, the gaiety, the charm and the imagination of his friend - to whom he remained personally devoted to the end - he dicerned a cynical indifference to the fate of individual human lives for the sake of social experiment, a lust for revolution for revolutio...
2011-03-13 08:01:00
柏林论老愤青巴枯宁
Herzen rightly held Bakunin guilty of it, and behind the ardent phrases, the lion-hearted courage, the broad Russian nature, the gaiety, the charm and the imagination of his friend - to whom he remained personally devoted to the end - he dicerned a cynical indifference to the fate of individual human lives for the sake of social experiment, a lust for revolution for revolution's sake, which went ill with his professed horror before the spectacle of arbitrary violence or the humiliation of innocent persons. He detected a certain genuine inhumanity in Bakunin (of which Belinsky and Tuegenev were not unaware), a hatred of slavery, oppression, hypocrisy, poverty, in the abstract, without actual revulsion against their manifestations in concrete instances - a genuine Hegelianism of outlook - the feeling that it is useless to blame the instruments of history, when one can rise to a loftier height and survey the struture of history itself. Bakunin hated tsardom, but displayed too little specific loathing of Nicholas; he would never have given sixpences to little boys in Twickenham to cry, on the day of the Emperor's death, 'Zarnicoll is dead!' or left the emancipation of the peasants as a personal happiness. The fate of individuals did not greatly concern him; his units were too vague and too large; 'First destroy, and then we shall see.' Temperament, vision, generosity, courage, revolutionary fire, elemental force of nature, these Bakunin had to overflowing. The rights and liberties of individuals play no great part in his apocalyptic vision.引自第117页
柏林论老愤青巴枯宁 Herzen rightly held Bakunin guilty of it, and behind the ardent phrases, the lion-hearted courage, the broad Russian nature, the gaiety, the charm and the imagination of his friend - to whom he remained personally devoted to the end - he dicerned a cynical indifference to the fate of individual human lives for the sake of social experiment, a lust for revolution for revolutio...
2011-03-13 08:01:00
柏林论老愤青巴枯宁
Herzen rightly held Bakunin guilty of it, and behind the ardent phrases, the lion-hearted courage, the broad Russian nature, the gaiety, the charm and the imagination of his friend - to whom he remained personally devoted to the end - he dicerned a cynical indifference to the fate of individual human lives for the sake of social experiment, a lust for revolution for revolution's sake, which went ill with his professed horror before the spectacle of arbitrary violence or the humiliation of innocent persons. He detected a certain genuine inhumanity in Bakunin (of which Belinsky and Tuegenev were not unaware), a hatred of slavery, oppression, hypocrisy, poverty, in the abstract, without actual revulsion against their manifestations in concrete instances - a genuine Hegelianism of outlook - the feeling that it is useless to blame the instruments of history, when one can rise to a loftier height and survey the struture of history itself. Bakunin hated tsardom, but displayed too little specific loathing of Nicholas; he would never have given sixpences to little boys in Twickenham to cry, on the day of the Emperor's death, 'Zarnicoll is dead!' or left the emancipation of the peasants as a personal happiness. The fate of individuals did not greatly concern him; his units were too vague and too large; 'First destroy, and then we shall see.' Temperament, vision, generosity, courage, revolutionary fire, elemental force of nature, these Bakunin had to overflowing. The rights and liberties of individuals play no great part in his apocalyptic vision.引自第117页
Tolstoy was by nature a fox, but believed in being a hedge dog; that his gifts and achievement are one thing, and his beliefs, and consequently his interpretation of his own achievement, another; and consequently his ideals have led him, and those whom his genius for persuasion has taken in, into a systematic misinterpretation of what he and others were doing or should be diong. (P26) Something...
2021-05-05 17:19:28
Tolstoy was by nature a fox, but believed in being a hedge dog; that his gifts and achievement are one thing, and his beliefs, and consequently his interpretation of his own achievement, another; and consequently his ideals have led him, and those whom his genius for persuasion has taken in, into a systematic misinterpretation of what he and others were doing or should be diong. (P26)
Something is surely amiss here: Tolstoy’s violently unhistorical and indeed anti-historical rejection of all efforts to explain and justify human action and characters in terms of social and individual growth, or ‘roots’ in the past; this side by side with an absorbed and lifelong interest in history, leading to artistic and philosophical results which provoked such queerly disparaging comments from ordinary sane and sympathetic critics. (P32)
[Russian Thinkers] Herzen: ...they (the masses) are still blinded by the arrogant glitter of power, they are offended by those who stand alone...they want a social government to rule for their benefit, and not, like the present one, against it. But to govern themselves doesn't enter their head.(p100) Dulism is for Herzen a confusion of words with facts, the construction of theories employing ab...
Herzen: ...they (the masses) are still blinded by the arrogant glitter of power, they are offended by those who stand alone...they want a social government to rule for their benefit, and not, like the present one, against it. But to govern themselves doesn't enter their head.(p100)
Dulism is for Herzen a confusion of words with facts, the construction of theories employing abstract terms which are not founded in discovered real needs, of political programmes deduced from abstract principles unrelated to real situations. These formulae grow into terrible weapons in the hands of finatical doctrinaries who seek to bind them upon human beings, if need be, by violent vivisection, for the sake of some absolute ideal, for which the sanction lies in some uncritisied an uncriticisable vision - metaphysical, religious, aesthetic; at any rate, unconcerned with the actual needs of actual persons - in the name of which revotionary leaders kill and torture with quiet conscience, because they know that this and this alone is -must be - the solution to all social and political and personal ills. (p101)
Tolstoy was by nature a fox, but believed in being a hedge dog; that his gifts and achievement are one thing, and his beliefs, and consequently his interpretation of his own achievement, another; and consequently his ideals have led him, and those whom his genius for persuasion has taken in, into a systematic misinterpretation of what he and others were doing or should be diong. (P26) Something...
2021-05-05 17:19:28
Tolstoy was by nature a fox, but believed in being a hedge dog; that his gifts and achievement are one thing, and his beliefs, and consequently his interpretation of his own achievement, another; and consequently his ideals have led him, and those whom his genius for persuasion has taken in, into a systematic misinterpretation of what he and others were doing or should be diong. (P26)
Something is surely amiss here: Tolstoy’s violently unhistorical and indeed anti-historical rejection of all efforts to explain and justify human action and characters in terms of social and individual growth, or ‘roots’ in the past; this side by side with an absorbed and lifelong interest in history, leading to artistic and philosophical results which provoked such queerly disparaging comments from ordinary sane and sympathetic critics. (P32)
[Russian Thinkers] Herzen: ...they (the masses) are still blinded by the arrogant glitter of power, they are offended by those who stand alone...they want a social government to rule for their benefit, and not, like the present one, against it. But to govern themselves doesn't enter their head.(p100) Dulism is for Herzen a confusion of words with facts, the construction of theories employing ab...
Herzen: ...they (the masses) are still blinded by the arrogant glitter of power, they are offended by those who stand alone...they want a social government to rule for their benefit, and not, like the present one, against it. But to govern themselves doesn't enter their head.(p100)
Dulism is for Herzen a confusion of words with facts, the construction of theories employing abstract terms which are not founded in discovered real needs, of political programmes deduced from abstract principles unrelated to real situations. These formulae grow into terrible weapons in the hands of finatical doctrinaries who seek to bind them upon human beings, if need be, by violent vivisection, for the sake of some absolute ideal, for which the sanction lies in some uncritisied an uncriticisable vision - metaphysical, religious, aesthetic; at any rate, unconcerned with the actual needs of actual persons - in the name of which revotionary leaders kill and torture with quiet conscience, because they know that this and this alone is -must be - the solution to all social and political and personal ills. (p101)
柏林论老愤青巴枯宁 Herzen rightly held Bakunin guilty of it, and behind the ardent phrases, the lion-hearted courage, the broad Russian nature, the gaiety, the charm and the imagination of his friend - to whom he remained personally devoted to the end - he dicerned a cynical indifference to the fate of individual human lives for the sake of social experiment, a lust for revolution for revolutio...
2011-03-13 08:01:00
柏林论老愤青巴枯宁
Herzen rightly held Bakunin guilty of it, and behind the ardent phrases, the lion-hearted courage, the broad Russian nature, the gaiety, the charm and the imagination of his friend - to whom he remained personally devoted to the end - he dicerned a cynical indifference to the fate of individual human lives for the sake of social experiment, a lust for revolution for revolution's sake, which went ill with his professed horror before the spectacle of arbitrary violence or the humiliation of innocent persons. He detected a certain genuine inhumanity in Bakunin (of which Belinsky and Tuegenev were not unaware), a hatred of slavery, oppression, hypocrisy, poverty, in the abstract, without actual revulsion against their manifestations in concrete instances - a genuine Hegelianism of outlook - the feeling that it is useless to blame the instruments of history, when one can rise to a loftier height and survey the struture of history itself. Bakunin hated tsardom, but displayed too little specific loathing of Nicholas; he would never have given sixpences to little boys in Twickenham to cry, on the day of the Emperor's death, 'Zarnicoll is dead!' or left the emancipation of the peasants as a personal happiness. The fate of individuals did not greatly concern him; his units were too vague and too large; 'First destroy, and then we shall see.' Temperament, vision, generosity, courage, revolutionary fire, elemental force of nature, these Bakunin had to overflowing. The rights and liberties of individuals play no great part in his apocalyptic vision.引自第117页
0 有用 白鹇 2010-11-27 21:13:58
柏林的著作,还是读原文好,语言流畅许多。
1 有用 Requiem 2022-04-22 06:15:51
在偪仄的飛機上讀赫爾岑與巴枯寧那一章,如啜甘醴,酣暢淋灕,可惜疫情期間既沒有酒也沒有熟食,於是開心地大嚼薯片!
0 有用 Es. 2022-06-01 22:03:36
震撼
0 有用 東 風 2020-04-09 21:23:19
读完中译本再来读原版,依旧为之折服,美妙的杰作。Berlin对历史、知识阶层、目的论、自由、民粹的探讨让人豁然开朗,这样的书无论何时翻开都能带来灵性的慰藉。
1 有用 契诃夫的樱桃园 2021-05-01 22:45:03
2021/5/1 吉林。人是目的,而不是工具。人性的扭曲之材,断然造不出笔直之物。决定论,目的论,宏大的抽象概念,乌托邦许诺+工具理性至上,我国可真是把socialism和modern captalism的病都得全了啊😂绝望……
0 有用 Es. 2022-06-01 22:03:36
震撼
1 有用 Requiem 2022-04-22 06:15:51
在偪仄的飛機上讀赫爾岑與巴枯寧那一章,如啜甘醴,酣暢淋灕,可惜疫情期間既沒有酒也沒有熟食,於是開心地大嚼薯片!
0 有用 辛克莱 2021-08-05 07:22:05
酣畅淋漓!必须重读
0 有用 奈特塞巴斯蒂安 2021-08-04 02:37:40
终于看完了,最后一篇之前搞屠的时候竟然读过,一年前还不知道柏林是谁,一年后已经爬了这么多文论了。能把话说得这么明白清楚希望所有理论人都能好好学习……真的学到很多。
1 有用 契诃夫的樱桃园 2021-05-01 22:45:03
2021/5/1 吉林。人是目的,而不是工具。人性的扭曲之材,断然造不出笔直之物。决定论,目的论,宏大的抽象概念,乌托邦许诺+工具理性至上,我国可真是把socialism和modern captalism的病都得全了啊😂绝望……