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The captive mind

Czesław Miłosz ; translated from the Polish by Jane Zielonko

(Penguin twentieth-century classics)

Penguin Books, 1985, c1981

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"Reprinted with author's note 1985"--T.p. verso

Originally published: London : Martin Secker & Warburg, 1953

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.

Table of Contents

  • The pill of the Murti-Bing
  • looking to the West
  • Ketman
  • Alpha, the moralist
  • Beta, the disappointed lover
  • Gamma, the slave of history
  • Delta, the troubadour
  • man, his enemy
  • the lessons of the Baltics.

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