Leszek Kołakowski
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"The Devil is part of our experience. Our generation has seen enough of it for the message to be taken extremely seriously. Evil, I contend, is not contingent, it not the absence, or deformation, or the subversion of virtue (or whatever else we may think of as its opposite), but a stubborn and unredeemable fact"--My Correct Views on Everything (1974) Leszek Kołakowski |
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Leszek Kołakowski (October 23, 1927, Radom – July 17, 2009, Oxford, UK) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He was best known for his critical analyses of marxist thought, especially his acclaimed three-volume history, Main Currents of Marxism.
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- Klucz niebieski, albo opowieści budujące z historii świętej zebrane ku pouczeniu i przestrodze (The Key to Heaven), 1957
- Jednostka i nieskończoność. Wolność i antynomie wolności w filozofii Spinozy (The Individual and the Infinite: Freedom and Antinomies of Freedom in Spinoza's Philosophy), 1958
- 13 bajek z królestwa Lailonii dla dużych i małych (Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia and the Key to Heaven), 1963. English edition: Hardcover: University of Chicago Press (October 1989). Template:ISBN.
- Rozmowy z diabłem (US title: Conversations with the Devil / UK title: Talk of the Devil; reissued with The Key to Heaven under the title The Devil and Scripture, 1973), 1965
- Świadomość religijna i więź kościelna, 1965
- Od Hume'a do Koła Wiedeńskiego (the 1st edition:The Alienation of Reason, translated by Norbert Guterman, 1966/ later as Positivist Philosophy from Hume to the Vienna Circle),
- Kultura i fetysze (Toward a Marxist Humanism, translated by Jane Zielonko Peel, and Marxism and Beyond), 1967
- A Leszek Kołakowski Reader, 1971
- Positivist Philosophy, 1971
- TriQuartely 22, 1971
- Obecność mitu (The Presence of Myth), 1972. English edition: Paperback: University of Chicago Press (January 1989). Template:ISBN.
- ed. The Socialist Idea, 1974 (with Stuart Hampshire)
- Husserl and the Search for Certitude, 1975
- Główne nurty marksizmu. First published in Polish (3 volumes) as "Główne nurty marksizmu" (Paris: Instytut Literacki, 1976) and in English (3 volumes) as "Main Currents of Marxism" (London: Oxford University Press, 1978). Current editions: Paperback (1 volume): W. W. Norton & Company (17 January 2008). Template:ISBN. Hardcover (1 volume): W. W. Norton & Company; First edition (7 November 2005). Template:ISBN.
- Czy diabeł może być zbawiony i 27 innych kazań, 1982
- Religion: If There Is No God, 1982
- Bergson, 1985
- Le Village introuvable, 1986
- Metaphysical Horror, 1988. Revised edition: Paperback: University of Chicago Press (July 2001). Template:ISBN.
- Pochwała niekonsekwencji, 1989 (ed. by Zbigniew Menzel)
- Cywilizacja na ławie oskarżonych, 1990 (ed. by Paweł Kłoczowski)
- Modernity on Endless Trial, 1990. Paperback: University of Chicago Press (June 1997). Template:ISBN. Hardcover: University of Chicago Press (March 1991). Template:ISBN.
- God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism, 1995. Paperback: University of Chicago Press (May 1998). Template:ISBN. Hardcover: University of Chicago Press (November 1995). Template:ISBN.
- Freedom, Fame, Lying, and Betrayal: Essays on Everyday Life, 1999
- The Two Eyes of Spinoza and Other Essays on Philosophers, 2004
- My Correct Views on Everything, 2005
- Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?, 2007
- Is God Happy?: Selected Essays, 2012
- Jezus ośmieszony. Esej apologetyczny i sceptyczny, 2014
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