'The Hedgehog and the Fox' - new edition issued by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
On 28 April 2022 Weidenfeld & Nicolson published a new edition of IB's 1953 essay 'on Tolstoy's view of history', famously titled 'The Hedgehog and the Fox'.
- The edition is a part of Weidenfeld's new 'Essentials' list
- It is edited by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Michael Ignatieff
- Ignatieff writes, in the concluding paragraph to his introduction:
'This essay asks basic questions of anyone who reads it: What can we know? What does our ‘sense of reality’ tell us? Are we reconciled to the limits of human vision? Or do we long for something more? If so, what certainty can we hope to achieve one day? Because these are enduring questions of human existence, this great essay will last as long as people come seeking answers.'
