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News: September/October 2009

Farewell to two political philosophers • Confucius comes to Houston • Train Your Brain (read Philosophy Now!) — News reports by Sue Roberts

Leszek Kolakowski

Leszek Kolakowski passed away in July. He was by turn a young Marxist theoretician in Poland in the late 40s and early 50s; then a well-known revisionist in the late 50s; then a political outcast, fired from his Warsaw University post in 1968, his books banned; then a post Marxist philosopher in exile in California, and finally an anti-Marxist philosopher at Oxford University. There, he eventually became a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls. In a telling remark about his political journey, he once said that “There are better arguments in favour of democracy and freedom than the fact that Marx is not quite so hostile to them as he first appears.”

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