Leszek Kolakowski was not well known in the United States for a long time, but with the release of a collection of essays, Is God Happy?, his daugher, Agnieszka, hopes to change that.
Professor Kolakowski, who died in 2009 at the age of 81, has published more than two dozen books in philosophy, fiction, plays, and poetry. Undoubtedly a leading authority on Karl Marx and variations of his philosophy, Kolakowski has spent most of his life studying the history of philosophy, religion, and ethics. Kolakowski's principal publication, Main Currents of Marxism (in three volumes, about fifteen hundred pages), is a monumental treatise analyzing Marxism's historical origins, development, and dissolution.
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