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Is God Happy?: Selected Essays
Leszek Kolakowski
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Description for Is God Happy?: Selected Essays
Paperback. Features essays about communism and socialism, the problem of evil, Erasmus and the reform of the Church, reason and truth, and whether God is happy. This book deals with some of the eternal problems of philosophy and the most vital questions of our age. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141389554
SKU
V9780141389554
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About Leszek Kolakowski
Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009), born in Radom, Poland, was Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw until expelled from that post for political reasons by the Communist authorities in 1968. He left Poland that same year and from 1970 was Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was also Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at ... Read more
Reviews for Is God Happy?: Selected Essays
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
The most esteemed philosopher
Independent
There can be few more eminent figures in the world ... Read more
Tony Judt
The New York Times Review of Books
The most esteemed philosopher
Independent
There can be few more eminent figures in the world ... Read more