“intellectuals became preoccupied with an aspiration as fundamental in humans as the urge for individual autonomy: the need to belong.” — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
“intellectuals became preoccupied with an aspiration as fundamental in humans as the urge for individual autonomy: the need to belong.” — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
“Berlin stressed the farsightedness of his perception of the destructive power of ideological abstractions over human lives: “Herzen’s sense of reality, in particular of… — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
“My own interest in Herzen was sparked by an exception to this rule: Isaiah Berlin’s essays. These still seem to me to have best captured the distinctiveness of Herzen’s thought by identifying him as a precursor, spelling out truths too novel for most of his contemporaries to understand and far too frightening for them to accept. The present study will… — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share
“Comparisons have been made with Stirner, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Camus, to name only a few.3 He won tributes from Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn, who acknowledged… — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
“Herzen declared that there were “no solutions”: history, like nature, was an improvisation, subject to the play of chance.” — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
