Volume 28, Number 2 · February 19, 1981
The Spanish Style
By Raymond Carr
The Centralist Tradition of Latin America
by Claudio Véliz
Princeton University Press, 355 pp., $9.75 (paper)
Public Policy in a No-Party State: Spanish Planning and Budgeting in the Twilight of the Franquist Era
by Richard Gunther
University of California Press, 361 pp., $17.50
Professor Véliz, like so many others, admires Isaiah Berlin. He approves Berlin's by now classic division of the human intellect into the single, all-embracing vision of the hedgehog and the multiple, confused—even conflicting—insights of the fox. Of course without generalizations—about the class struggle, imperialism, dependency, etc.—provided by the terrible simplifiers, poor foxes like myself would be condemned to intellectual petit point devoid of pattern. Moreover we would be deprived of a satisfying experience, something to get our teeth into: snap go our foxes' jaws, the back of the generalization is broken, and, licking our lips, we trot home to the kennel, the vixen, and the cubs.
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