Book · 1997 · Nonfiction
The Proper Study of Mankind
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan) · 672 pages
★ 6.4 editorial score
Freedom from interference and freedom to become your true self are different things, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin warned, and tyrants prefer the second. His Tolstoy essay divides all thinkers into hedgehogs and foxes.
