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Title

Leszek Kołakowski in memoriam / Jacek Migasiński (ed.).

Publication

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012.

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Additional Authors

Migasiński, Jacek

Description

160 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"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 hand, texts drawing up a historical balance sheet of theoretical achievements of Leszek Kołakowski (articles by Andrzej Walicki and Andrew Targowski), and on the other, essays devoted to certain aspects of his philosophical position (articles by Marcin Król, Zofia Rosińska, Janusz Dobieszewski, Witold Mackiewicz and Janusz Kuczyński). Also presented in this volume are some occasional essays, sketching a portrait of Leszek Kołakowski (by Marek J. Siemek, Karol Toeplitz and Jerzy Szacki). The book is closed with an extensive bibliography"--Publisher's description, back cover.

Series Statement

Towards a universal civilization ; vol. 1

Uniform Title

Towards a universal civilization vol. 1.

Subject

Kołakowski, Leszek > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• "Bibliography of Leszek Kołakowski's writings": P. [131]-140 .

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

On writing intellectual history : Leszek Kołakowski and the Warsaw school of the history of ideas / Andrzej Walicki -- Leszek Kołakowski in the West and in Poland / Andrew Targowski -- Intro to 'What does Leszek Kołakowski teach us?' / Marcin Król -- Illuminating life : Leszek Kołakowski's philosopohy of culture / Zofia Rosińska -- On the consolation offered by Leszek Kołakowski's 'Metaphysical horror' / Janusz Dobieszewski -- Nietzschean traits in the works of Leszek Kołakowski / Witold Mackiewicz -- The universalism of John Paul II -- the universalism of Leszek Kołakowski : afterword / Janusz Kuczyński -- Laudatio on the renewal of Leszek Kołakowski's Ph.D. at the University of Warsaw / Marek Siemek -- A farewell to Professor Leszek Kołakowski (1927-2009) / Karol Toeplitz -- ... Supplement. Leszek Kołakowski between activist universalism and contemplative mysticism / Józef L. Krakowiak.

ISBN

• 3631618247
• 9783631618240

OCLC

• 795756817
• SCSB-11035124

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library