Leszek Kolakowski. Basic, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-465-08099-1
The word “mordant” may have been invented to describe a writer such as the late Kolakowski (1927–2009), public intellectual, brilliant stylist, and prolific author. This selection of essays not only offers new translations but also spans half a...
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Leszek Kolakowski, Author, Leszek Koakowski, Author, Agnieszka Kolakowska, Translator University of Chicago Press $30 (192p) ISBN 978-0-226-45039-1
The two collections of short stories compiled here were written in Poland 30 years ago by a University of Chicago professor and Oxford University Fellow perhaps best known in this country for his nonfiction Mainstreams of Marxism. The first book,...
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Leszek Kolakowski, Author, Agnieszka Kolakowska, Translator, Wolfgang Freis, Translator University of Chicago Press $42 (267p) ISBN 978-0-226-45045-2
Kolakowski ( The Presence of Myth ) urges caution in embracing the modern. For example, in Marxism, presumed by many to be a scientific, modernist creed, he sees ``the same yearning after the archaic community'' that drove Nazism. These stimulating,
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