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Trouble with History

Adam Michnik, Irena Grudzinska Gross, Elzbieta Matynia, Agnieszka Marczyk, Roman Czarny, James Davison Hunter
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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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Adam Michnik, Irena Grudzinska Gross, Elzbieta Matynia, Agnieszka Marczyk, Roman Czarny, James Davison Hunter EAN: 9780300185973 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 372 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Yale University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-05-27 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements, History: theory and methods

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      Adam Michnik is editor-in-chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He is a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, the Imre Nagy Award, and the Goethe Prize, among many other honors. Irena Grudzinska Gross teaches East European literature at Princeton University.
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Adam Michnik, Irena Grudzinska Gross, Elzbieta Matynia, Agnieszka Marczyk, Roman Czarny, James Davison Hunter EAN: 9780300185973 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 372 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Yale University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-05-27 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements, History: theory and methods

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      Adam Michnik is editor-in-chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He is a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, the Imre Nagy Award, and the Goethe Prize, among many other honors. Irena Grudzinska Gross teaches East European literature at Princeton University.

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