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Title: The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0-679-72856-2 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: December, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Moral equivalence ...
Comment: ... This book speaks of the horrors of communism, a crime against humanity that killed tens of millions and a crime that many of the perpetrators still haven't been called to account for. Instead, we get "anti-war" rallies sponsored by these same butchers....
... one quick reading will explain more of the statist, leftist, absolutist "logic" than anything else - and show why [destruction], enslavement, and denial of all liberties was CENTRAL to its survival.
Rating: 5
Summary: Insightful
Comment: Though the less than perfect translation of ideas from one language to another is often a problem, this is quite an insightful view of the transformation of Polish intellectuals and their intellectual life, through war and the failure of their own ideologies, into servants of the Stalinist state. It is really too bad that, with the passing of Communism, that Milosz has slipped somewhat from his place in the pantheon of thinkers and analysts of intellectual life. He, being a poet, brings a poet's sensibilities to the table, which by itself is refreshing but coupled with his melancholy humanism, which is sometimes gentle and sometimes a bit more strident, he deserves to be recognized as one of the great and good men of the intellectual history of the twentieth century.
Rating: 2
Summary: This Book is Not The Correct View of the Intelectual Mind
Comment: Living in Poland and Yugoslavia (where this book is mandatatory reading in gymnasiums, certain type of high schools) during the Iron Curtain period and during the fall of the B. Wall, I disagree that the theory in the book is correct. However, there were persons who could be associated with the certain personality types in the book, but to generalise in this way as Milos did is quite incorrect. For that I give the book two stars.
I don't know how the other reviewers could compare reality with what they read in the book; but I guess to see it with your own eyes is the best way to test the things. Well, some say - he got the Nobel Prise so the book must be good picture of reality. To those I say, Henry Kissinger got the Nobel Prise for peace (!?) and it is well documented what kind of criminal person he is.
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Title: The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash ISBN: 0679740481 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czeslaw Milosz, Bogdana Carpenter, Madeline G. Levine, Madeline Levine ISBN: 0374528594 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 02 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: New and Collected Poems : 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0060514485 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czesaw Miosz, Catherine S. Leach, Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0374528306 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 27 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: From Stalinism to Pluralism: A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945 by Gale Stokes ISBN: 0195094468 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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