The Role of Imagination in Literary Nonfiction

Isaiah Berlin’s famous metaphor

Posted by: liturgical on: February 18, 2009

“There exists a chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision … and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory…. The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.”

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