The captive mind /

By: Miłosz, Czesław, 1911-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Polish Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: London : Penguin, 2001Description: xvi, 251p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780141186764 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Totalitarianism | Politics and Government | Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 320.9470904 LOC classification: DJK50Summary: Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society as one that had allowed itself to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future, and continues to have relevance today.
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This translation originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1953.

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society as one that had allowed itself to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future, and continues to have relevance today.