Is God Happy?: Selected Essays
Author: Kolakowski, Leszek
Brand: Penguin
Color: Black
Binding: Paperback
Format: Deckle Edge
Number Of Pages: 352
Release Date: 25-12-2012
Part Number: 9780141389554
Details: 'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent
In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of evil, Erasmus and the reform of the Church, reason and truth, and whether God is happy. Accessible and absorbing, the essays in Is God Happy? deal with some of the eternal problems of philosophy and the most vital questions of our age.
Leszek Kolakowski has also written on religion, Spinoza, Bergson, Pascal and seventeenth-century thought. He left communist Poland after his expulsion from Warsaw University for anti-communist activities. From 1970 he was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
'His distinctive mix of irony and moral seriousness, religious sensibility and epistemological scepticism, social engagement and political doubt was truly rare ... a true Central European intellectual-perhaps the last' Tony Judt, The New York Times Review of Books
EAN: 9780141389554
Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches
Languages: English
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Is God Happy?: Selected Essays
Is God Happy?: Selected Essays
Author: Kolakowski, Leszek
Brand: Penguin
Color: Black
Binding: Paperback
Format: Deckle Edge
Number Of Pages: 352
Release Date: 25-12-2012
Part Number: 9780141389554
Details: 'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent
In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of evil, Erasmus and the reform of the Church, reason and truth, and whether God is happy. Accessible and absorbing, the essays in Is God Happy? deal with some of the eternal problems of philosophy and the most vital questions of our age.
Leszek Kolakowski has also written on religion, Spinoza, Bergson, Pascal and seventeenth-century thought. He left communist Poland after his expulsion from Warsaw University for anti-communist activities. From 1970 he was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
'His distinctive mix of irony and moral seriousness, religious sensibility and epistemological scepticism, social engagement and political doubt was truly rare ... a true Central European intellectual-perhaps the last' Tony Judt, The New York Times Review of Books
EAN: 9780141389554
Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches
Languages: English
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Author: Kolakowski, Leszek
Brand: Penguin
Color: Black
Binding: Paperback
Format: Deckle Edge
Number Of Pages: 352
Release Date: 25-12-2012
Part Number: 9780141389554
Details: 'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent
In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of evil, Erasmus and the reform of the Church, reason and truth, and whether God is happy. Accessible and absorbing, the essays in Is God Happy? deal with some of the eternal problems of philosophy and the most vital questions of our age.
Leszek Kolakowski has also written on religion, Spinoza, Bergson, Pascal and seventeenth-century thought. He left communist Poland after his expulsion from Warsaw University for anti-communist activities. From 1970 he was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
'His distinctive mix of irony and moral seriousness, religious sensibility and epistemological scepticism, social engagement and political doubt was truly rare ... a true Central European intellectual-perhaps the last' Tony Judt, The New York Times Review of Books
EAN: 9780141389554
Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches
Languages: English
