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Kołakowski, Leszek

LC control no.n 50044434
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPG7170.O4
Personal name headingKołakowski, Leszek
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Variant(s)Kolaksky, Leszek
Kolakovski, Leszek
קולקובסקי, לשק
Birth date1927-10-23
Death date2009-07-17
Place of birthRadom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Place of deathOxford (England)
Profession or occupationPhilosophers
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Found inSzkice o filozofii katolickiej, 1955.
Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia ; & The key to Heaven, 1989: CIP t.p. (Leszek Kolakowski)
El hombre sin alternativa, c1970: t.p. (Leszek Kolakovski) p. 4 of cover (professor of philosophy at Universidad de Varsovia until Mar. 1968, when expelled form his chair, forced to pursue his teaching activity abroad; currently lives in U.S.)
Why is there something rather than nothing, 2007: t.p. (Leszek Kołakowski)
New York times WWW site, July 21, 2009 (in obituary published July 20: Leszek Kolakowski; b. Oct. 23, 1927, Radom; d. Friday [July 17, 2009], Oxford, aged 81; Polish philosopher who rejected Marxism and helped inspire the Solidarity movement in his native land while living in exile)
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1927)
Associated languagepol eng