The Trouble With History: Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution - Couverture rigide

Michnik, Adam

 
9780300185973: The Trouble With History: Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution
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ISBN 10 : 0300185979 ISBN 13 : 9780300185973
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

A brilliant meditation on politics, morality, and history from one of the most courageous and controversial authors of our age

Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to the present day. In this thoughtful and provocative work, the man the Financial Times named "one of the 20 most influential journalists in the world" strips fundamentalism of its religious component and examines it purely as a secular political phenomenon.

Comparing modern-day Poland with postrevolutionary France, Michnik offers a stinging critique of the ideological "virus of fundamentalism" often shared by emerging democracies: the belief that, by using techniques of intimidating public opinion, a state governed by "sinless individuals" armed with a doctrine of the only correct means of organizing human relations can build a world without sin. Michnik employs deep historical analysis and keen political observation in his insightful five-point philosophical meditation on morality in public life, ingeniously expounding on history, religion, moral thought, and the present political climate in his native country and throughout Europe.

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À propos de l?auteur

Adam Michnik is editor-in-chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He is a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, the Imre Nagy Award, and the Goethe Prize, among many other honors. Irena Grudzinska Gross teaches East European literature at Princeton University.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300185979
ISBN 13 
9780300185973
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
Éditeur
Grudzinska Gross Irena
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Editeur : Yale University Press, 2015
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