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Modernity on Endless Trial
Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have never appeared before in English. "Exemplary. . . . It should be celebrated." —Arthur C. Danto, New York Times Book Review "This book . . . express[es] Kolakowski's thought on God, man, reason, history, moral truth and original sin, prompted by observation of the dramatic struggle among Christianity, the Enlightenment and modern totalitarianism. It is a wonderful collection of topics." —Thomas Nagel, Times Literary Supplement "No better antidote to bumper-sticker thinking exists than this collect...
Is God Happy?
'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of evil, Erasmus and the reform of the Church, reason and truth, and whether God is happy. Accessible and absorbing, the essays in Is God Happy? deal with some of the eternal problems of philosophy and the most vital questions of our age. Leszek Kolakowski has also written on religion, Spinoza, Bergson, Pascal and seventeenth-century thought. He left communist Poland after his expulsion from Warsaw University for anti-communist activities. From 1970 he was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. 'His distinctive mix of irony and moral seriousness, religious sensibility and epistemological scepticism, social engagement and political doubt was truly rare ... a true Central European intellectual-perhaps the last' Tony Judt, The New York Times Review of Books
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Leszek Kołakowski in Memoriam
This volume is devoted to the person and work of Leszek Kołakowski, who died in July 2009. At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, Leszek Kołakowski belonged to a group of young intellectuals actively supporting on the «ideological front» and in the University of Warsaw the new political agendas of Marxist provenance introduced in Poland. But already in 1955-56, he came to the fore of a movement of philosophical revisionists radically questioning the validity of these Marxist prescriptions. This resulted in his expulsion from the Communist Party in the early 1960s, then from the University and finally from Poland after the «March events» in 1968. Presented in this volume are, on the one ha...
Freedom, Fame, Lying And Betrayal
Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski is renowned worldwide for wrestling with serious philosophical conundrums with dazzling elegance. In this new book, he turns his characteristic wit to important themes of ordinary life, from the need for freedom to the wheel of fortune, from the nature of God to the ambiguities of betrayal. Extremely lucid and l
Po co filozofowi religia. Stanisław Brzozowski, Leszek Kołakowski
StanisÅ‚aw Brzozowski i Leszek KoÅ‚akowski w poszukiwaniu chrzeÅ›cijaÅ„skiej mÄ…droÅ›ci. „Mam nadziejÄ™, że zestawienie obu postaci polskich filozofów nie bÄ™dzie zanadto dziwiÅ‚o moich czytelników. WiÄ™cej jest cech, które ich Å‚Ä…czÄ…, niż tych, które oddzielajÄ…. Pierwszy byÅ‚ za życia otoczony krÄ™giem podejrzliwoÅ›ci i oskarżeÅ„, umieraÅ‚ mÅ‚odo, samotny; drugi szybko zdobyÅ‚ uznanie, przywiÄ…zanie przyjaciół i uczniów; jego kolejne książki stawaÅ‚y siÄ™ sensacjÄ…. (...) Obaj rozpoczynali od lewicowego zaangażowania i w pewnej mierze gubili je po drodze – chociaż niezupeÅ‚nie... Obaj wreszcie stanÄ™li wobec zjawiska religii: przede wszystkim w kulturze, nastÄ™pnie w Å...
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