The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen

The intellectual Alexander Herzen was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought. For Herzen, history, like Darwinian nature, was an improvisat...

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Main Author: Kelly, Aileen M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2016]
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Summary:The intellectual Alexander Herzen was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought. For Herzen, history, like Darwinian nature, was an improvisation both constrained and encouraged by chance
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (608 Seiten) 19 halftones
ISBN:9780674969438
DOI:10.4159/9780674969438

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