Birth Name:

Leszek Kołakowski

Male

Birth Date:

Sun, Oct 23, 1927

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Radom, Mazovia, Poland

Age:

96

Zodiac Sign:

Libra

Astrology Data:

Sun

29°

Lib

2'

About Leszek Kołakowski

Leszek Kołakowski (/ˌkɒləˈkɒfski/; Polish: [ˈlɛʂɛk kɔwaˈkɔfskʲi]; 23 October 1927 – 17 July 2009) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his three-volume history, Main Currents of Marxism (1976). In his later work, Kolakowski increasingly focused on religious questions. In his 1986 Jefferson Lecture, he asserted that "[w]e learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are".

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External Links:

• "Leszek Kołakowski". Information Processing Centre database (in Polish).

• Leszek Kołakowski – Daily Telegraph obituary

• Polish Philosophy Page: Bibliography at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 January 2008)

• Kołakowski, Leszek (1974). "My correct views on everything: A rejoinder to Edward Thompson's 'Open letter to Leszek Kołakowski'". Socialist Register. 11.

• The Alienation of Reason (Extract)

• The Death of Utopia Reconsidered

• The Complete and Brief Metaphysics

• Judt, Tony. "Goodbye to All That?" in The New York Review of Books, Vol. 53, No. 14, 21 September 2006 (review-essay on Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown by Leszek Kołakowski, translated from the Polish by P.S. Falla. Norton, 2005, ISBN 0-393-06054-3; My Correct Views on Everything by Leszek Kołakowski, edited by Zbigniew Janowski. St. Augustine's, 2004, ISBN 1-58731-525-4; Karl Marx ou l'esprit du monde by Jacques Attali. Paris: Fayard, 2005, ISBN 2-213-62491-7)

• Roger Kimball, Leszek Kołakowski and the Anatomy of Totalitarianism

• Kołakowski : In Stalin's Countries: Theses on Hope and Despair (1971)

• 1 April 1999, BBC Radio program In Our Time

• Appearances on C-SPAN

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Leszek Kołakowski: Sun 29 Libra, Moon 5 Libra, Mercury 22 Scorpio, Venus 16 Virgo, Mars 28 Libra, Jupiter 24 Pisces, Saturn 5 Sagittarius, Uranus 0 Aries, Neptune 28 Leo, Pluto 17 Cancer, Sun Quincunx Uranus, Sun Sextile Neptune, Sun Conjunct Mars, Sun Semi Square Venus, Mercury Trine Jupiter, Venus Sextile Pluto, Mars Quincunx Uranus, Mars Sextile Neptune, Jupiter Conjunct Uranus, Uranus Quincunx Neptune

Categories related to Leszek Kołakowski: October 23 births, People from Radom, Polish anti-communists, Oxford, MacArthur Fellows, McGill University faculty, 2009 deaths, Spinoza scholars, Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, University of Warsaw alumni, Polish dissidents, Historians of communism, AC with 25 elements, Fellows of All Souls College, Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom, Former Marxists, University of Warsaw faculty, Polish United Workers Party members, Critics of Marxism, Jerusalem Prize recipients, 1927 births, Marxist humanists, Scholars of Marxism, Spinozist philosophers, Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland), 20th-century Polish philosophers, 21st-century Polish philosophers

Photo attribution: Verhoeff, Bert / Anefo, [1] Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANeFo), 1945-1989, Nummer toegang 2.24.01.05 Bestanddeelnummer 924-3417