THE DISCOVERY OF CHANCE

Alexander Herzen?philosopher, novelist, essayist, political agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century?was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece My Past and Thoughts and as the father of Russian socialism, his contributions to the history of ideas defy easy categorization because they are so numerous. Ai leen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called the forerunner of much twentie th-century...[Read more]