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Positivist philosophy from Hume to the Vienna Circle; (Pelican books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Leszek Kołakowski

Philosophy

Penguin Books, Ltd.

In eighteen short essays, one of the world's most admired living philosophers reflects on the important themes of everyday life. Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski is renowned worldwide for wrestling with serious philosophical conundrums with dazzling elegance. In this new book, he turns his characteristic wit to important themes of ordinary life, from the need for freedom to the wheel of fortune, from the nature of God to the ambiguities of betrayal. Extremely lucid and lacking in intellectual pretension, these essays speak in everyday language, spurring the reader's own thoughts and providing a handle on which to debate and think about the themes. The eighteen essays cover the following power, fame, equality, lying, toleration, travel, virtue, collective responsibility, the wheel of fortune, betrayal, violence, boredom, freedom, luxury, God, respect for nature, superstition, and national stereotypes.

Freedom, Fame, Lying and Betrayal: Essays on Everyday Life

Metaphysical Horror (Penguin Philosophy)

Penguin Uk

The Golden Age (Main Currents of Marxism, Vol. 2)

History

Oxford University Press

Bergson (Past Masters)

Henri Bergson was born the year that Darwin published On the Origin of Species.  The significance of this and other works on the theory of evolution in the development of Bergson's philosophy became clear when he published Creative Evolution and established himself as one of Europe's most influential thinkers.  Kolakowski shows how Bergson sought to reconcile Darwinian theory with the view that all matter is propelled by an internal life-drive.

This volume contains two unusual and appealing satirical works by the well-known European philosopher Kolakowski. The first, Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia, is set in a fictional land. Each story illustrates some aspect of human inability to come to terms with imperfection, infinitude, history, and nature. The second, The Key to Heaven, is a collection of seventeen biblical tales from the Old Testament told in such a way that the story and the moral play off each other to illustrate political, moral, or existential foibles and follies.

Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia and The Key to Heaven

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

University of Chicago Press

Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation

FAIR TRADE-PAPERBACK. MODERATE UNDERLINING; HEAVY FOXING TO PAGE TIPS.

Robert C. Tucker

Stephen F. Cohen

Wlodzierz Brus

Katerina Clark

Alexander Erlich

Robert H McNeal

Robert Sharlet

Moshe, Lewin

Politics & Government

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A single-volume edition of the three-part study of Marxism provides a comprehensive history of the origins, structure, and posthumous development of the Marxist thought system, tracing its intellectual foundations from Plotonius through the philosophies of such figures as Lenin, Sarte, and Mao, in an publication complemented by a new preface and epilogue.

Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

P. S. Falla

Text: English, Polish (translation)

The key to heaven: Edifing tales from Holy Scripture to serve as teaching and warning / Conversation with the Devil

Grove Press : distributed by R

Neutrality and Impartiality: The University and Political Commitment

First published in 1975, this is a book of general intellectual interest about the role of the university in contemporary society and that of university teachers in relation to their subjects, their students, and their wider political commitments. Alan Montefiore offers preliminary analyses of the family of concepts most often invoked in discussions of these problems, taking the central dispute to be between those who hold a 'liberal' view of the university and those who regard this notion as illusory, dishonest or undesirable. Six academics, representing, discuss issues of substantive conflict in light of Montefiore's initial distinctions. The volume is of particular interest to students of political and social philosophy, and political and educational theory. It is also intended for a wider readership among those who care about the political status of the universities and recognize the importance and difficulty of the problems involved in this.

Charles, Taylor

Andrew Graham

C. L. Ten

W. L. Weinstein

Louis Marin

Alan Montefiore

Cambridge University Press

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