Modernity on Endless Trial

Name: Modernity on Endless Trial
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ISBN: 9780226450469

ISBN-10: 0226450465

ISBN-13: 9780226450469

Edition: 1997

Authors: Leszek Kolakowski, Stefan Czerniawski, Wolfgang Freis, Agnieszka Kolakowska

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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 of topics." --Thomas Nagel, Times Literary Supplement "No better antidote to bumper-sticker thinking exists than this…

Book details

Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/23/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 267
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Foreword



On Modernity, Barbarity, and Intellectuals



Modernity on Endless Trial



Looking for the Barbarians: The Illusions of Cultural Universalism



The Intellectuals



Why Do We Need Kant?



In Praise of Exile



On the Dilemmas of the Christian Legacy



The Revenge of the Sacred in Secular Culture



Can the Devil Be Saved?



On the So-Called Crisis of Christianity



The Illusion of Demythologization



Philosophical Faith in the Face of Revelation



From Truth to Truth



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



On Scientific Theories



Why an Ideology Is Always Right



The General Theory of Not-Gardening



Fabula mundi and Cleopatra's Nose



Emperor Kennedy Legend: A New Anthropological Debate Epilogue: Education to Hatred, Education to Dignity