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	Leszek Kolakowski
		Leszek Kolakowski was born in Radom as the son of Jerzy Kolakowski, a publicist, and the former Lucyna Pietrusiewicz.
		Kolakowski was head of the section of the history of modern philosophy at the University of Warsaw from 1959 to 1968 and professor of modern philosophy from 1964 until 1968.
		'Leszek Kolakowski's misinterpretation of Marxism' by Waclaw Mejbaum and Aleksandra Zukrowska, in
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /kolakow.htm (1483 words)

	Online NewsHour: Prize Winner -- November 5, 2003
		Leszek Kolakowski, an anti-Communist Polish philosopher at Oxford University in England, was awarded the first $1 million John W. Kluge prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities.
		LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI: Obviously when one lives for a long time in the atmosphere of violence, lawlessness, and danger like we all lived under the German occupation, inevitably one asks oneself whether or not another world is possible.
		LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI: The decisive factor in the collapse of communism was the collapse of ideology.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec03/kluge_11-05.html (627 words)

	Kolakowski, Leszek
		Kolakowski (1927-), polsk filosof som siden 1970 har levet i eksil, det meste af tiden i Oxford i England.
		Kolakowski havde sin filosofiske baggrund i den officielle stalinistiske marxisme, havde allerede før oktober 1956 angrebet «den religiøse obskurantisme» - en formulering som var et forklædt angreb på den stalinistiske dogmetro.
		Kolakowskis umiddelbare anliggende var at redde marxismen fra dens institutionelle forfald.
	www.leksikon.org /print.php?n=1389 (445 words)

	The Religion Report - 19 November 2003 - Leszek Kolakowski honoured
		Moral philosopher Leszek Kolakowski is the inaugural winner of a million-dollar prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
		Well, here is Leszek Kolakowski giving a lecture in the United States last year, on one of his favourite topics: Natural Law.
		Leszek Kolakowski: A critic might argue that the American Constitution - which establishes religious freedom, freedom of speech, the illegality of slavery - is good, because it is impossible to deny that peace is better than war, and freedom is better than slavery and so on.
	www.abc.com.au /rn/religionreport/stories/2003/992427.htm (627 words)

	Leszek Kolakowski Biography
		Leszek Kolakowski earned a double distinction in 20th-century philosophy: He was one of the few Eastern European philosophers to earn an international reputation.
		Kolakowski soon won a reputation as a Marxist with a sense of irony and a sense of humor at a time (the era of Stalin) when East European Marxists were expected to be grim and single-minded.
		Kolakowski was quickly invited to a sequence of visiting professorships at McGill University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Yale University.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/leszek-kolakowski (918 words)

	CHAPTER X
		Leszek Kolakowski’s ethical views, like his other theoretical views have undergone considerable change, evolving from the Marxist approach to one that is religious.
		Kolakowski believes that ethics in not restricted to the analysis of the word ‘ethics,’ but is a search for answering the question of what are goodness and evil, and how to justify the norms of our behaviour.
		Kolakowski continues this ways of thinking, producing the arguments in favour of God’s existence ‘from self-experience of himself as a moral subject’.37 He formulates an assumption on the creative character of moral acts, which is a consequence of the thesis of the equal range of goodness and being.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-25/chapter_x.htm (3925 words)

	FT March 2000: Leszek Kolakowski: Modernity on Endless Trial (1990)
		Kolakowski describes it as a collection of "semiphilosophical sermons" that explore currently insoluble dilemmas and argue for "moderation in consistency." But it is much more than that.
		It is characteristic of Kolakowski that he does not regard a healthy uncertainty as a threat to all truths.
		Kolakowski is no friend to socialism, but he says that socialism could become viable only by accepting something like Kant’s views.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft0003/articles/kolakowski.html (980 words)

	A Conversation With Leszek Kolakowski - Mihajlo Mihajlov
		In fact, the essay is Kolakowski's Thomas Jefferson lecture, delivered in 1986 when he was chosen as the recipient of the annual National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Award.
		Leszek Kolakowski has lived in the West for many years, teaching philosophy at Oxford and at the University of Chicago.
		Leszek Kolakowski was interviewed on the subject of his essay "Idolatry of Politics" by the Yugoslav author Mihajlo Mihajlov.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1987/november/Sa13152.htm (259 words)

	Leszek Kolakowski Wins First John W. Kluge Prize
		Professor Kolakowski (pictured at right), who now resides in Oxford, England, was born in Radom, Poland, in 1927, is a philosopher focused on important questions, an historian of human thought, an essayist of enormous range, and an outstanding spokesman for, and exemplar of, European culture.
		Professor Kolakowski is the author of more than 30 books and 400 other writings in a wide variety of formats and in four languages: primarily in Polish, but also in French, English and German.
		What Kolakowski exemplifies and defends is the treatment of every individual as a rational and freely acting subject, aware that there is a spiritual side of life, able to have faith, yet eschewing absolute certainty of either an empirical or transcendental sort.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2003/03-195.html (2146 words)

	Review of "Main Currents of Marxism: The Golden Age" by Leszek Kolakowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kolakowski's basic premiss is that the period of the Second International represented the 'golden age' of Marxism - the period during which a solid base of Marxist theory existed, but there was no sterile dogma enforced on Marxists.
		Throughout the course of this work, Kolakowski emphasizes that the Marxist doctrine could be (and was) interpreted in various different (and often contradictory) ways by different people.
		Kolakowski's purpose in this work is to trace the history of a doctrine, and as a result all three volumes of "Main Currents of Marxism" are quite heavy on philosophy.
	www.amherst.edu /~daschaich/writings/amazon/marxismgoldenage.html (682 words)

	Leszek Kolakowski & the anatomy of totalitarianism by Roger Kimball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Leszek Kolakowski & the anatomy of totalitarianism by Roger Kimball
		In 1954, Kolakowski was accused of “straying from Marxist-Leninist ideology.” (True, all too true.) In 1966, after delivering a speech commemorating the tenth anniversary of the October thaw,” he was expelled from the Party with all the usual ceremony.
		Kolakowski’s survey of Marxist thought is breathtaking in its sweep—from the Bible and the Greeks through the web of nineteenth-century socialist thought and the florid dissemination of Marxist and quasi-Marxist ideas in the “new-age” redoubts of the twentieth century, Kolakowski has provided the definitive account of a spiritual-political itinerary gone terribly wrong.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/23/jun05/leszek.htm (3998 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Modernity on Endless Trial, by Leszek Kolakowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		...Kolakowski cannot be accused of harboring any illusions about the "real existing socialism" from which he escaped to the West...
		...Kolakowski argues very cogently, for instance, that religious faith is possible only on the basis of a conviction of truth, not on the basis of the insight that religion satisifies certain needs, either collective or individual...
		...Kolakowski writes that an appropriate metaphor for this age would be "the biblical legend of Nebuchadnezzar, who was degraded to the condition of a beast when he tried to exalt himself to the dignity of God...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V91I4P58-1.htm (1455 words)

	Amazon.ca: Main Currents Of Marxism: Books: Leszek Kolakowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kolakowski is a historian of philosophy and treats Marxism as such; that is, he does not address the history of Marxist movements, parties, and leaders.
		There is no mistaking Kolakowski for a Marxist, but his grasp of the interrelationship of Marxian concepts from alienated labor to historical materialism to revisionism is complete.
		Kolakowski also understands Marxism's propensity for schismatic development, justifying the author's description of this history as a handbook of the principal Marxist theoreticians.
	www.amazon.ca /Main-Currents-Marxism-Leszek-Kolakowski/dp/0393060543 (274 words)

	Amazon.ca: Modernity on Endless Trial: Books: Leszek Kolakowski,Agniezka Kolakowska,Wolfgang Freis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kolakowski (The Presence of Myth) urges caution in embracing the modern.
		Especially notable is Kolakowski's defense of Eurocentrism: he argues that propagating the European ideal of cultural self-criticism affirms the equality of cultures without tolerating intolerance.
		As a contrast to the (variously valuable) examples of thinkers along more partisan "conservative/progressive" lines, Kolakowski acts as a kind of "referee", momentarily separating the "combatants" in a contest that, one perceives, were it to cease, no society worth living in would exist.
	www.amazon.ca /Modernity-Endless-Trial-Leszek-Kolakowski/dp/0226450465 (1156 words)

	Review of "Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders" by Leszek Kolakowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kolakowski begins his discussion of Marxism by considering "the question whether modern Communism, in its ideology and institutions, is the legitimate heir of Marxist doctrine...
		Kolakowski begins by considering the history of some of the philosophical issues and questions that Marx addressed and that helped to shape his thinking.
		The final chapter is a recapitulation and philosophical commentary in which Kolakowski addresses three final questions: the differences between Marx's Marxism and that of Engels; the motifs of Romanticism, Faustian Prometheanism and Enlightenment rationalism in Marx's thought; and the issue of Marxism as a source of Leninism.
	www.amherst.edu /~daschaich/writings/amazon/marxismfounders.html (671 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Main Currents of Marxism, by Leszek Kolakowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		...The fact that Kolakowski received his education in a country whose rulers claim allegiance to Marxism and the fact that he himself was a fervent believer for quite a long while only add to the intrinsic interest which a publication event of this magnitude must arouse...
		...Leszek Kolakowski was born in 1927 in Radom, southeastern Poland...
		...The doctrinal account is not related by Kolakowski to the political or social developments surrounding the particular individual whose doctrine is being discussed, but he is hardly unaware of the connection...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V67I4P95-1.htm (2549 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Goodbye to All That?
		Forced to leave his native land in 1968, Kolakowski could neither return home nor be published there: between 1968 and 1981 his name was on Poland's index of forbidden authors and much of the work for which he is best known today was written and published abroad.
		Kolakowski's "Marxist" period, from his early prominence in postwar Po-land as the most sophisticated Marxist philosopher of his generation through his departure in 1968, was actually quite brief.
		Kolakowski mercilessly dissects Thompson's strenuous, self-serving efforts to save socialism from the shortcomings of Marxism, to save Marxism from the failures of communism, and to save communism from its own crimes: all in the name of an ideal ostensibly grounded in "materialist" reality—but whose credibility depended on remaining untainted by real-world experience or human shortcomings.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/19302 (5233 words)

	Polish culture: Leszek Kolakowski
		In these tales, Kolakowski uses an accessible and attractive literary form to analyze philosophical problems and paradoxes and to present discussions among different philosophical schools and doctrines.
		The first text of Kolakowski's to be confiscated by the censor - and, subsequently, the first to begin to function underground - was the 1956 manifesto "What is Socialism?", which he wrote for "Po prostu" magazine.
		In 1996, Leszek Kolakowski recorded ten short lectures on issues in the philosophy of culture (on authority, tolerance, betrayal, equality, fame, and falsehood, among others) for Polish Television.
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/os_kolakowski_leszek (446 words)

	Untitled Document
		In his native Poland, Kolakowski is a figure of enormous stature, an icon in the struggle for victory over communism and the re-establishment of national freedom.
		By that time, Kolakowski had concluded that the intellectual passion of his youth was little more than an elaborate fraud maintained not be the power of its argument but by a quasi-religious faith in its message, believed in spite of the inculpating evidence of reality.
		As Kolakowski dismantled the Marxist project he simultaneous constructed an intellectual defense of European civilization based upon faith in the transcendent and the realization that human freedom rests on foundations grasped by religion but denied by Marxism.
	www.ascribe.org /cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20031120.130541&time=13%2057%20PST&year=2003&public=1 (791 words)

	Truth Be Told, CMC Magazine Article, Summer 2002, Claremont McKenna College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He is renowned worldwide for the depth and breadth of his interests, which include the impact of the Enlightenment, his critical examination of Marxism, and his exploration of the questions of religion and myth.
		In his writings, Kolakowski argued that self-organized social groups could gradually and peacefully expand the spheres of civil society in a totalitarian state, and his thinking helped inspire the dissident movements of the 1970s that led to Solidarity and, eventually, to the collapse of communism in Europe in 1989.
		Kolakowski: It has been corrosive, in part, because the Catholic Church tried unsuccessfully to suppress, at various points, scientific development and because the church compromised itself by such attempts.
	www.mckenna.edu /news/cmcmagazine/summer2002/kola/kola-print.htm (1327 words)

	Koakowski,Leszek Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski is renowned worldwide for wrestling with serious philosophical conundrums with dazzling elegance.
		Leszek Kolakowski discusses, in a highly original way, the arguments for and against the existence of God as they have been conducted through the ages.
		Kolakowski shows how Henri Bergson sought to reconcile Darwin's theory with his own beliefs about the nature of the universe.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Koakowski,Leszek (623 words)

	domksiazki.com - D&Z HOUSE OF BOOKS
		Leszek Kolakowski, Wydawnictwo: Znak, 2006 83-240-0669-9 116, miękka oprawa
		Leszek Kolakowski, Wydawnictwo: Znak, 2006 83-240-0625-7 472, oprawa twarda
		Leszek Kolakowski, Wydawnictwo: Muchomor, 2005 83-89774-17-8 38, oprawa twarda
	www.polishhouseofbooks.com /search.aspx?q=kolakowski&cat=book&page=0 (150 words)

	[ misinformation.be \| Leszek Kolakowski Resources ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Leszek KoÅakowski (born 23 October 1927 in Radom, Poland) is the best revered operative Polish philosopher.
		He is expressly manifest for her disapproving cogitation of Marxist thought, expressly her acclaimed 3-volume history, Main Currents in Marxism.
		Paris: Fayard, 2005, ISBN 2213624917) Roger Kimball, Leszek Kolakowski the Anatomy of Totalitarianism Database "http://www.misinformation.be/Leszek_KoÅakowski"
	basketball.misinformation.be /Leszek_Kolakowski (796 words)

	Leszek Kolakowski
		Kolakowski is of interest, not just as an ex-Name (a very useful and pretty study could be made of the rise and decline of his reputation within the western Left over the last thirty or forty years), but as a superb historian and thinker.
		Kolakowski is nonetheless always able to make clear why people got wrought up about such things, what the issues involved were, how they thought, why they thought that way.
		His reflections on our current predicament I find less persuasive, perhaps because they don't agree with mine (though I think he views of socialism and Marxism are absolutely on-target).
	cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/notebooks/kolakowski.html (596 words)

	The Religion Report: 19 November 2003 - Leszek Kolakowski honoured
		Stephen Crittenden: The United States Library of Congress has just announced the inaugural winner of a major new prize, the John W. Kluge prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
		In announcing the prize, the Library of Congress described Kolakowski as a true humanist who had always asked big questions — defending the human instinct for the transcendent, and values like tolerance and diversity.
		Leszek Kolakowski: A critic might argue that the American Constitution — which establishes religious freedom, freedom of speech, the illegality of slavery — is good, because it is impossible to deny that peace is better than war, and freedom is better than slavery and so on.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s992427.htm (599 words)

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