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The Trouble with History - Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution (Hardcover)
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The Trouble with History - Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Culture Series
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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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