Is God Happy?: Selected Essays (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780465080991)

The late Leszek Kolakowski was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. A prominent anticommunist writer, Kolakowski was also a deeply humanistic thinker, and his meditations on society, religion, morality, and culture stand alongside his political writings as commentaries on intellectual--and everyday--life in the twentieth century.

Kolakowski's extraordinary empathy, humor, and erudition are on full display in Is God Happy?, the first collection of his work to be published since his death in 2009. Accessible and wide ranging, these essays--many of them translated into English for the first time--testify to the remarkable scope of Kolakowski's work. From a provocative and deeply felt critique of Marxist ideology to the witty and self-effacing "In Praise of Unpunctuality" to a rigorous analysis of Erasmus' model of Christianity and the future of religion, these essays distill Kolakowski's lifelong engagement with the eternal problems of philosophy and some of the most vital questions of our age.

Author: Leszek Kolakowski
ISBN-10: 0465080995
ISBN-13: 9780465080991
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 02/05/2013
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2012
Booklist 12/15/2012 pg. 3
Publishers Weekly 12/10/2012
Library Journal 05/15/2013 pg. 82