Leszek Kolakowski in Memoriam Hardback

by Jacek Migasinski

Part of the Towards a Universal Civilization series

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This volume is devoted to the person and work of Leszek KoÅ‚akowski, who died in July 2009.

At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, Leszek KoÅ‚akowski belonged to a group of young intellectuals actively supporting on the Â«ideological frontÂ» 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 Â«March eventsÂ» in 1968.

Presented in this volume are, on the one hand, texts drawing up a historical balance sheet of theoretical achievements of Leszek KoÅ‚akowski (articles by Andrzej Walicki and Andrew Targowski), and, on the other, essays devoted to certain aspects of his philosophical position (articles by Marcin KrÃ³l, Zofia RosiÅ„ska, Janusz Dobieszewski, Witold Mackiewicz and Janusz KuczyÅ„ski).

Also presented in this volume are some occasional essays sketching a portrait of Leszek KoÅ‚akowski (by Marek J.

Siemek, Karol Toeplitz and Jerzy Szacki). The book is closed with an extensive bibliography.