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The Captive Mind
Czeslaw Milosz
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Description for The Captive Mind
Paperback. Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created controversy in its analysis of 'modern' society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future. Translator(s): Zielonko, Jane. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141186764
SKU
V9780141186764
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99-98
About Czeslaw Milosz
Milosz Czeslaw (b. 1911), Polish-American author, translator, and critic who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Czeslaw Milosz worked with the Polish Resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and defected to France in 1951. His work brings to bear the political awareness of an exile -- most notably in A Treatise on Poetry, a forty-page exploration ... Read more
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