For 10 points, name this author of "The Hedgehog and the Fox" and "Two Concepts of Liberty."
This man explained what pluralism was in his lecture "The Pursuit of the Ideal;" he had earlier tackled that subject in "Some Procrustations" and "Democracy, Communism, and the Individual." He argued that determinism arose from the psychological need to create an alibi rather than by any semblance of factual evidence in his essay "Historical Inevitability." He believed that romanticism was part of a movement he dubbed the "Counter-Enlightenment," and it was Giambattista Vico, Johann Herder, and Johann Hamann who titled his collection Three Critics of the Enlightenment. In a better known essay, he contended that Leo Tolstoy straddled the line between thinkers who focus on a single idea and those who draw from a wider variety of sources. For 10 points, name this author of "The Hedgehog and the Fox" and "Two Concepts of Liberty."
This man explained what pluralism was in his lecture "The Pursuit of the Ideal;" he had earlier tackled that subject in "Some Procrustations" and "Democracy, Communism, and the Individual."
Isaiah {Berlin}