at the end of the day he was an anti-marxist and ant-communist.
this is probably what his antistalinism is about. and that was then
one of the ways to make academic carrier in the capitalist world.
i do not see any philosophical value in his so-called philosophical work.
but i may learn someting new if it can be shown based on the textual evidences.
in short, i do not miss him - an enemy of working classes...
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Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Leszek Kolakowski dies
*Leszek Kolakowski, philosopher, sociologist and essayist has died, aged
82. *
“We receive this news with great pain and sorrow,” said Rector of Warsaw
University, Katarzyna Chalasinska-Macukow. “This is a big loss not just
for Poland but for the world.”
Poland’s lower house of parliament, the Sejm, stopped debating, Friday,
to pay the distinguished intellectual a minute’s silence in his memory.
Kolakowski’s /Main Currents of Marxism/ (1978) became a standard
academic text in universities the world over and he was awarded Poland’s
highest honour, the White Eagle, for services to the history of ideas.
Kolakowski was born in Radom, central Poland in 1927. He took his degree
at Lodz University and his doctorate in Warsaw University where he later
led the history of philosophy departament
.
Originally a member of the communist Polish United Workers Party he
became disillusioned and joined a growing band of revisionist Marxists.
After being thrown out of the party and losing his post at Warsaw
University, Kolakowski became convinced that Stalinism was the logical
conclusion of Marxism and not its aberration, as was the line in many
communist parties in Europe and elsewhere.
From the late 1960s he worked in universities in the US, and UK, where
he became a prominent academic at Oxford University. He is thought to be
a major intellectual inspiration to the opposition to communism in Poland. *
http://polskieradio.pl/thenews/national/artykul112297_leszek_kolakowski_dies.html
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