My Correct Views On Everything ebook

by Zbigniew Janowski,Leszek Kolakowski

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For one thing, he knows the subject inside and out, having apparently read everything that Marx and his disciples every wrote, having spent much of his life in a communist country, and having evolved from Party member, to revisionist, to outspoken opponent. Then there is his matchless talent for lucid exposition: Marx's ideas, muddled and impenetrable in their original form, become perfectly clear when Kolakowski talks about them.

In his later work, Kolakowski increasingly focused on religious questions. My Correct Views on Everything, 2005.

In his later work, Kolakowski increasingly focused on religious questions Due to his criticism of Marxism and Communism, Kołakowski was effectively exiled from Poland in 1968. Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?, 2007. St. Augustine's, 2004, ISBN 1-58731-525-4; Karl Marx ou l'esprit du monde by Jacques Attali.

Leszek Kołakowski, Zbigniew Janowski Far from believing that the author has "correct views on everything," the reader is likely to be convinced that Kolakowski is right on more than one point.

Leszek Kołakowski, Zbigniew Janowski. Far from believing that the author has "correct views on everything," the reader is likely to be convinced that Kolakowski is right on more than one point.

Zbigniew Janowski From a 2007 book of Zbigniew Mentzel’s interviews of Kołakowski, entitled Czas.

My Correct Views on Everything-a collection of essays, letters and interview responses by the Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski is best appreciated-in the context of the life, politics and earlier work of its author. Born in 1927 in a small town in Poland, Leszek Kołakowski lived through Nazi occupation and then through the communist years of the Polish People’s Republic. From a 2007 book of Zbigniew Mentzel’s interviews of Kołakowski, entitled Czas ciekawy, czas niespokojny, we learn about the intellectual history of the author’s life.

Leszek Kolakowski is author of over thirty books, including four from St. .Библиографические данные. My Correct Views on Everything. Augustine's Press, 2005. Augustine's Press (The Two Eyes of Spinoza and Other Essays on Philosophers, Religion: If There Is No Go.

Kolakowski laid out his reasons in his famous My Correct Views on Everything . They lack what Leszek Kolakowski could teach them.

Kolakowski laid out his reasons in his famous My Correct Views on Everything (1973), a rejoinder to the distinguished English historian . Thompson’s hundred-page An Open Letter to Leszek Kolakowski, published a year earlier in the Socialist Register.

Leszek Kolakowski - Leszek Kołakowski Leszek Kołakowski, Varsovie (Pologne), 23 octobre 2007.

St. Augustine's, 2004, ISBN 1587315254; "Karl Marx ou l'esprit du monde" by Jacques Attali. Paris: Fayard, 2005, ISBN 2213624917) Roger Kimball,. Leszek Kolakowski - Leszek Kołakowski Leszek Kołakowski, Varsovie (Pologne), 23 octobre 2007.

by Leszek Kolakowski, Zbigniew Janowski. ISBN 9781587315251 (978-1-58731-525-1) Hardcover, St. Augustines Press, 2005. Find signed collectible books: 'My Correct Views On Everything'. The Two Eyes of Spinoza. by Leszek Kolakowski, Zbigniew Janowski, Agnieszka Kolakowska. ISBN 9781587318757 (978-1-58731-875-7) Hardcover, St. Augustines Press, 2004.

Georges J. D. Moyal - 1999 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (1):159-164. Leszek Kołakowski - 2005 - St. Augustine's Press.

Zbigniew Janowski - 2005 - St. Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas. Georges J. Added to PP index 2010-05-07. Total views 21 ( of 2,253,781 ).

Roger Kimball - Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism. O co nas pytaja wielcy filozofowie Sokrates, odc 1, cz 1 wideo2.

Very few academic philosophers can write about philosophy in a way that attracts the attention of those outside academia; even fewer can write with equal scholarly competence about something that transcends their narrow academic concerns; much less to have written about philosophy in such a way that it gave such a headache to Communist authorities or the leaders of the Western Left, as Leszek Kolakowski. In his title essay, "My Correct Views on Everything" (Kolakowski's famous rejoinder to E. P. Thompson's "Open Letter to L. Kolakowski"), the former Communist "High Priest" accounts for his apostasy from communism and explains why communism had to fail. Next, in a number of scholarly articles, he explains why communism assumed the pernicious form it had. There are two other sections, on Christianity and Liberal ideologies. Included are also two interviews with the author.

Far from believing that the author has "correct views on everything," the reader is likely to be convinced that Kolakowski is right on more than one point. One's rejection of Marxist ideology does not have to lead, Kolakowski implicitly suggests, to the dismissal of the Marxist dream of a world without greed. Being critical of this or that item in the Church's politics should not have to make one reject Jesus's teaching. Finally, being concerned with liberalism's inability to generate moral values should not lead us past the compelling reasons to accept the liberal state as the only viable political alternative both to the follies of the movement in the twentieth century and the dangers of religious theocratic temptations.

What Kolakowski offers in his new collection of essays is, in short, a "catechism" for non-ideological Marxists, Catholic Christians, liberals and conservatives alike. Once again, Kolakowski offers his readers pleasure without equal.

Darkshaper

In this collection of 21 essays and 2 interviews, Leszek Kolakowski explores timely philosophical issues in a vibrant, witty and scintillating style.

Kolakowski's writings about Marxism are incomparably better than anyone else's. For one thing, he knows the subject inside and out, having apparently read everything that Marx and his disciples every wrote, having spent much of his life in a communist country, and having evolved from Party member, to revisionist, to outspoken opponent. Then there is his matchless talent for lucid exposition: Marx's ideas, muddled and impenetrable in their original form, become perfectly clear when Kolakowski talks about them.

As a critic of Marx, Kolakowski is scrupulously fair and objective, while pulling no punches. His analyses are models of honest, careful, trenchant criticism. His essays are also quite entertaining, full of self-deprecating irony, and biting sarcasm.

No one excels K. in the dissection of Leftist argumentation. In a highly amusing rebuttal of E. P. Thompson's "open letter", Kolakowski slams Thompson's use of double standards: Whatever goes wrong in capitalist countries is attributed, by definition, to "the capitalist system". Whatever goes wrong in socialist countries is excused as a "transitional phase" and/or is attributed to the remnants of capitalism, or to "capitalist encirclement" or to some other non-communist influence. An even-handed, empirical comparison of the two systems would show, says K., "...that the only universal medicine (the Left) has for social evils (state ownership of the means of production) is not only perfectly compatible with all the disasters of the capitalist world - with exploitation, imperialism, pollution, misery, waste, national hatred, national oppression - but that it adds to them a series of disasters of its own: inefficiency, lack of economic incentives and, above all...a concentration of power never known before in human history."

Why has socialism been such a disappointment? Because it promises the achievement of contradictory aims - efficient management and industrial democracy, small communities and central planning, perfect security and technical progress - which make coherent sense only in a "leftist heaven where everything is compatible." Marxists imagine that they can solve "all the problems of mankind" with a few magic words "which, when repeated often enough, start looking as if they had content."

Marxism is certainly passe, but is it really dead? Perhaps not. Apocalyptic fantasy is a perennial secretion of the human mind. As Kolakowski says of Marxism: "I wish it were obsolete, but I am not sure it is...It might come back to life."

The collection also contains gem-like essays about the challenges of modernity, the relevance of Christianity, the dominance of relativism and other timely subjects.

Kefrannan

From the start it is evident that this book is the product of a brilliant though secular mind. The author is at his best describing quite convincingly the deficiencies and failures of the several social and political systems which have come and gone, namely, socialism, communism, Marxism, Stalinism, Nazism, etc. These obviously bear the mark of personal and direct experience. However, when the author ventures into realms of theology, I feel he is at his weakest. Those parts of the book would probably serve best by their omission. The chapter on What is Socialism is brilliant and so tongue in cheek that it could easily be read on Saturday Night Live. The two observations that struck me the most are: First, the almost complete absence (except for a paragraph or so in the last chapter) of any mention of another of the author's Polish contemporaries, who was arguably equally brilliant and famous if not more so, namely John Paul II; Second, the author often stresses the need for respect of universal human dignity, the value of tradition, etc. and yet it is difficult for me to recognize the Polishness of his soul, if I may say so. Despite his insistence of the importance of tradition and the bemoaning of the decline of Christianity, which were the most prominent factors in the survival of the Polish soul during that country's various divisions and occupations yet, in that sense, he seems to have abandoned his own roots.