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Kaddish Pages on Tadeusz Kantor
ISBN: PB: 9780857427489, Seagull Books, May 2020
64 pp., 17.7x10.7 cm, 16 halftones
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was renowned for his revolutionary theater performances in both his native Poland and abroad. Despite nominally being a Catholic, Kantor had a unique relationship with Jewish culture and incorporated many elements of Jewish...
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£13,99
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Catholics on the Barricades Poland, France, and "Revolution", 1939-1956
ISBN: HB: 9780300225518, Yale University Press, February 2018
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojty³a, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle...
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House as Open Form: The Hansens' Summer Residence in Szumin Dom jako Forma Otwarta. Szumin Hansenow
ISBN: PB: 9788364177149, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2014
200 pp., 27.1x19.8 cm, 120 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! This beautifully illustrated volume offers a photographic tour of the iconic house of Polish architect couple: Oskar Hansen, member of Team 10, and his wife, Zofia. Located in Szumin in central Poland and designed in 1968, t...
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Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism On Open Form Architecture, Art and Didactics
ISBN: PB: 9788364177057, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2014
350 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 100 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! Following an international conference organized at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2013, "Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism" analyzes diverse aspects of the architectural, theoretical, and didactical oeuvre of Oskar Han...
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Ghetto Diary
ISBN: PB: 9780300097429, Yale University Press, June 2003
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) is one of the legendary figures to emerge from the Holocaust. A successful paediatrician and well-known author in his native Warsaw, he gave up a brilliant medical career to devote himself to the care of orphans. Like so ma...
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£14,99
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Presence of Myth
ISBN: PB: 9780226450575, University of Chicago Press, November 2001
145 pp., 23x15 cm
With "The Presence of Myth", Kolakowski demonstrates that no matter how hard man strives for purely rational thought, there has always been-and always will be-a reservoir of mythical images that lend "being" and "consciousness" a specifically human m...
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£21,00
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God Owes Us Nothing A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism
ISBN: PB: 9780226450537, ISBN: HB: 9780226450513, University of Chicago Press, May 1998
248 pp., 23x15 cm
"God Owes Us Nothing" reflects on the centuries-long debate in Christianity: how do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's responsibility for their own...
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£36,00
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Modernity on Endless Trial
ISBN: PB: 9780226450469, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
267 pp., 23x15 cm
Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have never appeared before in English.
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£24,00
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Still Alive An Autobiographical Essay
ISBN: PB: 9780300105612, Yale University Press, May 1994
308 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century, illuminating not only the fat...
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