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Modernity on Endless Trial
ISBN: PB: 9780226450469, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
267 pp., 23x15 cm
Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have never appeared before in English.
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£24,00
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One of Us The Mastery of Joseph Conrad
ISBN: PB: 9780226316963, University of Chicago Press, February 1997
226 pp., 21.5x14 cm
The concept of mastery straddles a largely unexamined seam in contemporary thought dividing admirable self-control from a reprehensible will to power. Although Joseph Conrad has traditionally been viewed as an admirable master – master mariner, story...
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£27,00
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Still Alive An Autobiographical Essay
ISBN: PB: 9780300105612, Yale University Press, May 1994
308 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century, illuminating not only the fat...
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£24,00
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They Came to See a Poet Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780856462382, Carcanet, November 1991
234 pp., 22.4x14.5 cm
Tadeusz Rozewicz is Poland's most popular and influential poet. Born in 1921, he belongs to the generation of writers whose work was indelibly marked by Poland's traumatic and tragic war-time experience. "What I produced is poetry for the horror-stri...
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£15,95
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Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars
ISBN: PB: 9780874515558, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 1991
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jews have long seen the interwar years as a "golden age" for Polish Jewry and hold it in special reverence because of the community's heroic struggle against the encroaching darkness of antisemitism. During the years 1918 to 1939, Polish Jews constit...
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£36,00
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