The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz, Jane Zielonko

The Captive Mind

Czesław Miłosz, Jane Zielonko

272 pages first pub 1953 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging reflective slow-paced

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The Captive Mind begins with a discussion of the novel Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and its plot device of Murti-Bing pills, which are used as a metaphor for dialectical materialism, but also for the deadening of the intellect caus...

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