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The Captive Mind (Polish: Zniewolony umysł) is a 1953 work of nonfiction by Polish writer, poet, academic and Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. It was first published in English in a translation by Jane Zielonko in 1953.
The Captive Mind begins with a discussion of the novel Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and its plot device of Murti-Bing pills, which are used as a metaphor for dialectical materialism, but also for the deadening of the intellect caused by consumerism in Western society.
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. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. Item Size. 949764661.
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. Czeslaw Milosz. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1981 - History - 251 pages. The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral...
Aug 11, 1990 · A classic book from the last century worth exploring to understand how social restructuring affects very well-intentioned people. Milosz’s, The Captive Mind, is a Pulitzer Prize wining character study of how the process of capitulation works on four young minds in post war Poland.
the captive mind. by. czeslaw milosz & jane zielonko. Publication date. 1955. Publisher. vintage books, inc. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary.
