Trouble with History. Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution

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 post-revolutionary 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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An aparitie	July 2014
Autor	Michnik Adam| Gross Irena Grudzinska| Matynia Elzbieta| Marczyk Agnieszka| Czarny Roman S.
Dimensiuni	21x14 cm
Editura	Yale University Press
Format	Hardback
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	192