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Author / Creator:Kołakowski, Leszek, author.
Edition:Paperback edition.
Imprint:Chicago [Illinois] ; London [England] : The University of Chicago Press, 1997.
©1990
Description:1 online resource (270 pages)
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11242015
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ISBN:9780226217406
022621740X
9780226450452
0226450457
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Kołakowski, Leszek. Modernity on endless trial. Chicago, [Illinois] ; London, [England] : The University of Chicago Press, 1997, ©1990. Paperback edition. vii, 261 pages 9780226450452

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505 0 |a pt. 1. On modernity, barbarity, and intellectuals. Looking for the barbarians: The illusions of cultural barbarians -- pt. 2. On the dilemmas of the Christian legacy. The revenge of the Sacred in secular culture. On the so-called crises of Christianity. The illusion of demythologization. Philosophical faith in the face of revelation -- pt. 3. On Liberals, Revolutionaries, and Utopians. The death of Utopia reconsidered. The idolatry of politics. The self-poisoning of the open society. Politics and the devil. Irrationality in politics. Marxism and human rights. Revolution -- a beautiful sickness. How to be a Conservative- Liberal-Socialist: A Credo -- pt. 4. On scientific theories. Why an ideology is always right. The general theory of not-gardening. Emperor Kennedy legend. 
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