TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The trouble with history : morality, revolution, and counterrevolution
T2  - Politics and culture
A1  - Michnik, Adam, 1946- kirjoittaja
A2  - Grudzińska-Gross, Irena, 1946- toimittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2822010
AB  - Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to the present day. In this thoughtful and provocative work, the man the Financial Times named "one of the 20 most influential journalists in the world" strips fundamentalism of its religious component and examines it purely as a secular political phenomenon. Comparing modern-day Poland with postrevolutionary France, Michnik offers a stinging critique of the ideological "virus of fundamentalism" often shared by emerging democracies: the belief that, by using techniques of intimidating public opinion, a state governed by "sinless individuals" armed with a doctrine of the only correct means of organizing human relations can build a world without sin. Michnik employs deep historical analysis and keen political observation in his insightful five-point philosophical meditation on morality in public life, ingeniously expounding on history, religion, moral thought, and the present political climate in his native country and throughout Europe.
SN  - 0300185979
SN  - 9780300185973
KW  - Democracy : Moral and ethical aspects.
KW  - Jacobins.
KW  - Political ethics.
KW  - Post-communism : Poland.
KW  - demokratia
KW  - etiikka
KW  - moraali
KW  - politiikka
KW  - France : Politics and government : 1789-1799.
KW  - Poland : Politics and government : 1989-
ER  -