Leszek Kolakowski in Memoriam

ISBN-13: 9783631618240 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 160 str.

Jacek Migasinski

Opis

This volume is devoted to the person and work of Leszek Kolakowski, who died in July 2009. At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, Leszek Kolakowski belonged to a group of young intellectuals actively supporting on the ideological front 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 March events in 1968. Presented in this volume are, on the one hand, texts drawing up a historical balance sheet of theoretical achievements of Leszek Kolakowski (articles by Andrzej Walicki and Andrew Targowski), and, on the other, essays devoted to certain aspects of his philosophical position (articles by Marcin Krol, Zofia Rosinska, Janusz Dobieszewski, Witold Mackiewicz and Janusz Kuczynski). Also presented in this volume are some occasional essays sketching a portrait of Leszek Kolakowski (by Marek J. Siemek, Karol Toeplitz and Jerzy Szacki). The book is closed with an extensive bibliography.

Spis treści

Contents: Andrzej Walicki: On writing intellectual history: Leszek Kolakowski and the Warsaw school of history of ideas - Andrew Targowski: Leszek Kolakowski in the West and in Poland - Marcin Król: Intro to What Does Leszek Kolakowski teach us - Zofia Rosinska: Illuminating Life. Leszek Kolakowskis philosophy of Culture - Janusz Dobieszewski: On the Consolation Offered by Leszek Kolakowskis Metaphysical Horror - Witold Mackiewicz: Nietzschean Traits in the Works of Leszek Kolakowski - Janusz Kuczynski: The Universalism of John Paul II. The universalism of Leszek Kolakowski. Afterword - Marek J. Siemek: Laudatio on the Renewal of Leszek Kolakowskis Ph.D. at the Warsaw University - Karol Toeplitz: A Farewell to Professor Leszek Kolakowski - Jerzy Szacki: L.K.: Remembrances Leszek Kolakowski. Remebrances and some Comments - Bibliography of Leszek Kolakowski's writings, edited by Stanislaw Gromadzki.

O autorze

Jacek Migasinski, professor of the University of Warsaw, is an expert in the history of modern and contemporary philosophy, especially French phenomenology. He is the author of several books and has edited a few volumes of conference proceedings, published numerous articles and translations of French philosophy.