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The Trouble with History - Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,803
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The Trouble with History - Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution (Hardcover): Adam Michnik

The Trouble with History - Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution (Hardcover)

Adam Michnik; Edited by Irena Grudzinska Gross; Translated by Elzbieta Matynia, Agnieszka Marczyk, Roman Czarny; Foreword by James Davison Hunter

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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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Politics and Culture Series
Release date: May 2014
First published: May 2014
Authors: Adam Michnik
Editors: Irena Grudzinska Gross
Translators: Elzbieta Matynia • Agnieszka Marczyk • Roman Czarny
Foreword by: James Davison Hunter
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-18597-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General
Books > History > Theory & methods > General
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LSN: 0-300-18597-9
Barcode: 9780300185973

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