Who is Leszek Kolakowski?

Who is Leszek Kolakowski?

Leszek Kolakowski, (born Oct. 23, 1927, Radom, Pol.-died July 17, 2009, Oxford, Eng.), Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy who became one of Marxism ’s greatest intellectual critics.

Is Joseph Kolakowski a philosopher?

“Philosopher” was his usual label, but not a wholly accurate one: historian of ideas would be better. Mr Kolakowski showed little interest in the Oxford tradition of analytical philosophy; like his great Oxonian philosophical contemporary, Isaiah Berlin, he formulated no grand scheme of ideas.

Who is Wladyslaw Kołakowski?

In Poland, Kołakowski is regarded as a philosopher and historian of ideas but also as an icon for anti-communism and opponents of communism. Adam Michnik has called Kołakowski “one of the most prominent creators of contemporary Polish culture”. Kołakowski died on 17 July 2009, aged 81, in Oxford, England.

What did Kacper Kolakowski study in college?

In 1950 he received an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Łódź, and in 1953 he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Warsaw, where he taught and served as chair of the department of the history of philosophy until 1968. Kolakowski began his scholarly career as an orthodox Marxist.