Comte, Isidore Auguste François Marie Xavier, 16, 48
Correa, Paula: ‘The Fox and the Hedgehog’, 114n, 115
Crimean War (1854–5), 52, 62
Crowder, George: Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism, 104n
Danilevsky, Nikolay Yakovlevich, 8
Dante Alighieri: as ‘hedgehog’, 2, 4, 93, 103
Darwin, Charles Robert, 16
Davenport, Guy Mattison, 109–10
Decembrists, 62
Descartes, René, 111
determinism: Tolstoy on, 32, 34, 77–8, 80
dialectic, 100
Dickens, Charles John Huffam, 14
Diderot, Denis, 27, 47, 73
Diehl, Ernst, 112
Distributists, 84
Dodds, Eric Robertson, 113
Dostoevsky, Fedor Mikhailovich: as ‘hedgehog’, 2, 4, 91, 93, 95, 107, 108; speech on Pushkin, 3; contrasted with Tolstoy, 46; and natural sciences, 48; influenced by Proudhon, 66n
Edel, Joseph Leon: letter to, 93
Eikhenbaum, Boris Mikhailovich: on
Tolstoy’s view of history, 9n, 39–40; on Tolstoy’s research for War and Peace, 46n; and Maistre’s influence on Tolstoy, 55n; and Proudhon’s influence on Tolstoy, 66n
empiricism: Tolstoy’s, 13, 48, 68, 80, 86
Encyclopedists (French), 48, 64
Enghien, Louis Antoine Henri Condé, duc d’, 55
Enlightenment (French): influence on Tolstoy, 47
Erasmus, Desiderius, 2
Errera, Roger (of Calmann-Levy publishers): letter to, 93
eviclass="underline" Maistre on man as, 53, 80
executioner: Maistre on, 66
existentialists, 41n, 100
Fascism, 54
Fet, Afanasy Afanas′evich (pseudonym of Afanasy Afanas′evich Senshin), 7, 10
Flaubert, Gustave: view of Tolstoy, 6, 36; artistic purism, 23
Flower, Desmond John Newman, 9n
Fraenkel, Eduard David Mortier, 113
Frederick II (‘the Great’), King of Prussia, 60
free will, 51
Freemasons: Tolstoy on, 50, 72
French Revolution: effect on optimistic rationalism, 62; anti-clericalism, 64; Roman Catholic view of, 64; Maistre and, 84
Georges, Marguerite Joséphine Weimer, 55
Gibbon, Edward, 33
Gide, André Paul Guillaume, 23
God: Maistre’s faith in, 70–1
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: as ‘fox’, 2, 91; and knowledge, 86
Gogol, Nikolay Vasil′evich: relation to Pushkin and Dostoevsky, 3; contrasted with Tolstoy, 46
Gorky, Maxim (pseudonym of Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov), 66n
Görres, Johann Joseph von, 84
Grant, Sheila Sokolov: letter to, 92
Greece (ancient): Maistre on, 70
Gusev, Nikolay Nikolaevich, 15
Halban, Aline (later Berlin), xiv
Hardy, Henry Robert Dugdale: (ed.) The Book of Isaiah, 106n; ‘Thoughts of Taj Mahal will leave you as drunk as a fox’ (review), 105 see also Cherniss, Joshua Laurence
Hart, Jenifer Margaret, 98n
Haumant, Émile, 9n, 61n
Hedgehog and the Fox, The (IB): commentaries and remarks on, 91–119
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich: as ‘hedgehog’, 2; influence on Tolstoy, 13; influence on Slavophils, 49; Schelling and, 49; as ‘owl’, 98–100
Heine, Christian Johann Heinrich: ‘Zum Lazarus’, 13n
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 111–12
Herodotus, 2
history: Tolstoy’s view of, 5–16, 18–22, 28–30, 69, 72–3, 78–9, 88–9; Marx on as science, 16; Chernyshevsky on, 48; Maistre on, 69–70, 74, 79–80, 83
Homer, 1n
Hume, David, 14, 100
Ibsen, Henrik, 2
Idealist movement (German), 49, 51, 80
Ignatieff, Michael Grant: interview with IB, 101–4; ‘Berlin in Autumn’, 104n; Isaiah Berlin: A Life, ixn
Il′in, Ivan Aleksandrovich, 8n
intelligentsia: Tolstoy’s aversion to, 49, 63
irrationaclass="underline" Maistre on, 62–3, 78
Isenschmid, Andreas: ‘Isaiah Berlin: Ein Porträt’ (broadcast), 91n
Ivan IV (‘the Terrible’), Tsar of Russia, 15, 27
Ivanov, Nikolay Andreevich, 15
Jacobins, 47
James, Henry: as ‘hedgehog’, 91
Jesuits: Tolstoy hates, 67; expelled from Russia, 68
Job, Book of, 79
Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius, 2
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis), 70n
Kant, Immanueclass="underline" on ‘crooked timber of humanity’, xv; Bowle on, 100
Kareev, Nikolay Ivanovich, 9n, 36–9, 42
Kautsky, Karl, 9n
knowledge: rival forms, 84–6
Konovalov, Sergey Aleksandrovich, 103
Kurbsky, Prince Andrey Mikhailovich, 27
Kutuzov, Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev, 31–2, 35, 55, 72–3, 76, 78, 87, 86, 96
Lamennais, Hugues Félicité Robert de, 66
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 73
Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 29, 73
Lasserre, François, 110
Lear, Edward: ‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’, 98
Lenin, Vladimir Il′ich: and Tolstoy, 9n
Leon, Derrick, 9
Leont′ev, Konstantin Nikolaevich, 8 liberalism: and social contract, 28; Tolstoy on, 80
liberty (freedom): Tolstoy on, 33–4
Lieberson, Jonathan, and Sidney Morgenbesser: ‘The Choices of Isaiah Berlin’, 107n, 110, 114
Lilla, Mark, Ronald Dworkin and Robert B[enjamin] Silvers (eds): The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, 105n
logical positivism, 100
Louis XIV, King of France, 24
Louis XVIII, King of France, 25
Lubbock, Percy, 8
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), 2
Lukes, Steven, 105
MacNeice, Frederick Louis, 105
Magee, Bryan Edgar: ‘Isaiah As I Knew Him’, 106n
Maistre, Joseph Marie, comte de: career and ideas, 53–6, 66–7, 76, 84, 90; influence on Tolstoy, 53–6, 63–4, 67–9, 76, 78, 84, 87–8, 92, 96; on men as evil, 53, 80; hostility to belief in rational, 62–3, 78; and fall of Speransky, 63; opposes Encyclopedists, 64; on authority, 65–6, 87; missionary activities in St Petersburg, 68; view of history, 69–70, 74, 79–80, 83; on original sin, 80; on knowledge, 85–7; Correspondence diplomatique, 55; Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, 54–5, 58n, 96
Maistre, Rodolphe de, 55
Marx, Karl Heinrich: on history as science, 16; Tolstoy and, 16; on self-deception of bourgeoisie, 30; as ‘hedgehog’, 102–3
Maude, Aylmer, 9
Maupassant, Guy de, 23n
Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeevich, 8
Mikhailov, Mikhail Larionovich, 13n
Mill, John Stuart, 48
Moleschott, Jacob, 82
Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), 2
Monge, Gaspard, comte de Péluse, 76
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de: as ‘fox’, 2
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de, 14; De l’esprit des lois, 74n
Moore, George Edward, 100
morale: in war, 56, 59n
Moscow: in War and Peace, 19
Moses (Biblical figure), 84
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French: Tolstoy on, 21, 24–7, 28, 31, 55–6, 60, 72, 87, 96; Kareev on, 38; exiles king of Sardinia, 54; and suffering, 79
Navalikhin, S. (pseudonym of Vil′gel′m Vil′gel′movich Bervi, also known as Vasily Vasil′evich Bervi-Flerovsky), 7n
Nazar′ev, Valer′yan Nikolaevich, 15
Newton, Isaac, 76
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia, 62
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm: as ‘hedgehog’, 2; and Maistre, 54
nihilism: attributed to Tolstoy, 11, 61, 82
Norov, Avraam Sergeevich, 7n
Obninsky, Viktor Petrovich, 9n
Omodeo, Adolpho, 53n
original sin: Maistre on destiny and, 80
Orthodox Church, 50
Oxford and Asquith, Julian Edward George Asquith, 2nd Earl of, xv, 101, 112
Oxford Slavonic Papers, xiii, xvii, 92, 103
Pareto, Vilfredo Federico Damaso,
Parmenides, 113
Pascal, Blaise: as ‘hedgehog’, 2, 91; and knowledge, 86
Paulucci, General Filipp Osipovich, marquis, 21, 55, 72, 77
Pertsev, Vladimir Nikolaevich, 9n
Pfuel, General Ernst von, 21, 72, 77