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The trouble with history : morality, revolution, and counterrevolution
- Title
- The trouble with history : morality, revolution, and counterrevolution / Adam Michnik ; edited by Irena Grudzinska Gross ; translated by Elzbieta Matynia, Agnieszka Marczyk, and Roman Czarny ; foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV.
- Author
- Michnik, Adam
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
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- Additional Authors
- Grudzińska-Gross, Irena
- Description
- xiii, 194 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to the present day. In this thoughtful and provocative work, the man the Financial Times named "one of the 20 most influential journalists in the world" strips fundamentalism of its religious component and examines it purely as a secular political phenomenon. Comparing modern-day Poland with postrevolutionary France, Michnik offers a stinging critique of the ideological "virus of fundamentalism" often shared by emerging democracies: the belief that, by using techniques of intimidating public opinion, a state governed by "sinless individuals" armed with a doctrine of the only correct means of organizing human relations can build a world without sin. Michnik employs deep historical analysis and keen political observation in his insightful five-point philosophical meditation on morality in public life, ingeniously expounding on history, religion, moral thought, and the present political climate in his native country and throughout Europe"--
- "The book is a five-part meditation on morality in public life"--
- Series Statement
- [Politics and culture]
- Uniform Title
- Politics and culture (New Haven, Conn.)
- Subjects
- Note
- Series from book jacket.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Polish.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-3055
- ISBN
- 9780300185973 (hardback)
- 0300185979 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2013037728
- OCLC
- 862098469
- Author
- Michnik, Adam, author.
- Title
- The trouble with history : morality, revolution, and counterrevolution / Adam Michnik ; edited by Irena Grudzinska Gross ; translated by Elzbieta Matynia, Agnieszka Marczyk, and Roman Czarny ; foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- [Politics and culture]Politics and culture (New Haven, Conn.)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Translated from the Polish.
- Added Author
- Grudzińska-Gross, Irena, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-3055