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Dec 21, 2021 · The captive mind. by. Miłosz, Czesław. Publication date. 1990. Topics. Communism -- Poland, Poland -- Intellectual life -- 1945-1989. Publisher. New York : Vintage International.
Anne Applebaum, Historian. “Milosz tried to explain – as the title suggests – how thinking people could accept communism from inside the communist system. How does one not resist or just endure, but actually place one’s mind in the system? He points to a number of ways in which the mind can adapt.
The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz - The 3857th greatest book of all time. "The Captive Mind" is a thought-provoking exploration of the intellectual and moral dilemmas faced by artists and intellectuals living under oppressive regimes.
The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.
In "The Captive Mind", Czeslaw Milosz takes us into the world inhabited by the people of Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Hungary, and reveals in fascinating and frightening detail what happens to the human mind under totalitarianism: the often compelling reasons that lead men to embrace it and why -- given the spiritual price of ...
The Captive Mind examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.
