Two key excerpts from a 2019 European Parliament resolution, 80 years after the start of WW II: “B. whereas 80 years ago on 23 August 1939, the communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a Treaty of Non-Aggression, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and its secret protocols, dividing Europe and the territories of independent states […]
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Russian translation of *Battle for the Soul of the University* Spanish translation of *Nietzsche and the Nazis* — Kindle edition Persian translation of “Hitler and the Death of Free Speech” Polish translation of “Is Republishing Hitler’s Mein Kampf the Correct Decision?” Hebrew translation of *The Battle for the Soul of the University is Raging* Arabic
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The Polish translation by Professor Piotr Kostyło and Katarzyna Nowak of my Explaining Postmodernism was published by the University of Kasimir the Great Press. Here’s the table of contents: For other editions and translations, see my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault page.
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Łyszczyński was a Polish nobleman and philosopher who had been working on an atheist treatise. A bishop who witnessed his torture and killing described them this way …
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September 1, 1939 is the date the German Nazis invaded Poland, initiating World War Two. Less well remembered is the shortly thereafter Soviet Russian invasion of Poland. A month earlier, the Nazis and Soviets had agreed not to attack each other and to divide Poland (and other parts of eastern Europe) between them. The Soviets
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An officer in the Polish underground voluntarily went to Auschwitz. “In September 1940, [Witold] Pilecki didn’t know exactly what was going on in Auschwitz, but he knew someone had to find out. He would spend two and a half years in the prison camp, smuggling out word of the methods of execution and interrogation. He
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I will be giving a lecture at Jagiellonian University. 1364 was Jagiellonian’s founding year, making it one of the ancient universities of Europe. Nicholas Copernicus was a student there, back when the university was less than two centuries old. My lecture is on postmodern philosophy and its challenge to liberal education, drawing upon themes from
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[Revised from this earlier post.] When the great Polish intellectual Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009) published “My Correct Views on Everything,” he was responding to Edward Thompson’s attack in “Open Letter to Leszek Kolakowski.” Kolakowski is best known for Main Currents of Marxism, his huge survey of Marxism from its neo-Platonic and Hegelian roots, on through Marx
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I am quite the international trader, it turns out. Earlier today I put on my made-in-Argentina jacket and my new made-in-India shoes and got into my made-in-Japan truck. I stopped for gas at a British petroleum station and chatted with its owner, a guy from Mexico. To help pay for it all, I taught my
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After my talk there on “How Ethics Drives the Debate over the USA’s Healthcare Politics and Economics,” I received this letter of appreciation from the program’s head, Dr. Hanna Kostyło. In Polish and in English (click on image to enlarge): A fine memento of an enjoyable event. I learned from Professora Kostyło that the College
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