Herling nazwał Szałamowa "największym [...] pisarzem koncentracyjnego świata sowieckiego". W jednej z rozmów stwierdził: "Myślę, że wszyscy piszący o GUŁagu powinniśmy skłonić głowy przed Szałamowem. Łącznie z Sołżenicynem, który to zresztą zrobił". Hołdem Grudzińskiego było "Piętno. Ostatnie opowiadanie kołymskie. Tak jak w latach sześćdziesiątych Szałamow utrwalił ostatnie dni Osipa Mandelsztama w noweli "Sherry Brandy", tak Herling w 1982 roku opisał stan powolnego konania W i e l k i e g o P i s a r z a. Stylizując swój utwór na wzór "Opowiadań kołymskich", relacjonując dramatyczne fakty z konwencjonalną rzeczywistością, miarowym i spokojnym tokiem wypowiedzi, niechęcią wobec wykrzykników i "dramatycznego rozdymania słów", Herling z pokorą oddał pośmiertny hołd tym cechom pisarstwa Szałamowa, które były mu najbliższe.
Increasingly age appears to be the key dividing line in contemporary politics. Young people across the globe are embracing left-wing ideas and supporting figures such as Corbyn and Sanders. Where has this ‘Generation Left’ come from? How can it change the world?
This compelling book by Keir Milburn traces the story of Generation Left. Emerging in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, it has now entered the electoral arena and found itself vying for dominance with ageing right-leaning voters and a ‘Third Way’ political elite unable to accept the new realities.
By offering a new concept of political generations, Milburn unveils the ideas, attitudes and direction of Generation Left and explains how the age gap can be bridged by reinventing youth and adulthood. This book is essential reading for anyone, young or old, who is interested in addressing the multiple crises of our time.
Every human is born with multifarious potential. Why, then, do parents, schools and employers insist that we restrict our many talents and interests; that we 'specialise' in just one?
We've been sold a myth, that to 'specialise' is the only way to pursue truth, identity, or even a livelihood. Yet specialisation is nothing but an outdated system that fosters ignorance, exploitation and disillusionment and thwarts creativity, opportunity and progress.
Following a series of exchanges with the world’s greatest historians, futurists, philosophers and scientists, Waqas Ahmed has weaved together a narrative of history and a vision for the future that seeks to disrupt this prevailing system of unwarranted ‘hyper-specialisation.’
In The Polymath, Waqas shows us that there is another way of thinking and being. Through an approach that is both philosophical and practical, he sets out a cognitive journey towards reclaiming your innate polymathic state. Going further, he proposes nothing less than a cultural revolution in our education and professional structures, whereby everyone is encouraged to express themselves in multiple ways and fulfil their many-sided potential.
Not only does this enhance individual fulfilment, but in doing so, facilitates a conscious and creative society that is both highly motivated and well equipped to address the complexity of 21st century challenges.
Authors Imran Rashid and Soren Kenner have sparked an international debate by revealing the “mind hacks” Facebook, Apple, Google, and Instagram use to get you and your children hooked on their products.
In Offline, they deliver an eye-opening research-based journey into the world of tech giants, smartphones, social engineering, and subconscious manipulation. This provocative work shows you how digital devices change individuals and communities for better and worse.
A must-read if you or your kids use smartphones or tablets and spend time browsing social networks, playing online games or even just browsing sites with news and entertainment.
Learn how to recognize ‘mind hacks’ and avoid the potentially disastrous side-effects of digital pollution. Unplug from the matrix. Learn digital habits that work for you.
The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today'
In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
This book brings you Greta in her own words, for the first time. Collecting her speeches that have made history across Europe, from the UN to mass street protests, No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference is a rallying cry for why we must all wake up and fight to protect the living planet, no matter how powerless we feel. Our future depends upon it.
Trudno o bardziej doskwierające niedomogi ludzkich doznań niż te, które wiążą się z okazywaniem swej nieobojętności, z podejmowaniem ryzyka, z panowaniem nad sobą. Ubytki podmiotowości w powyższych zakresach są podstawowym argumentem na rzecz konieczności wprawiania w ruch rozumu, a nie zdobywania się tylko na stawianie znaków swej wolności, a przeto kreowania ""przepowiastek"", sygnujących przypadkowość raczej zaistnienia danego zachowania. Taki argument to siła samego życia, wyraz zaistniałego w nim artyzmu, a przeto jakaś niewielka, ale jednak szansa niedzielenia ludzi od siebie. Warunek pozostawania w zgodzie z realiami w odkrywaniu się tych szans jest nieuleganie aspiracjom (wychodzącym z elit) rozwiązania jakichś kwestii raz na zawsze. Ku takiej oto wykładni artyzmu życia dr Szczepan Kutrowski pokierował się w ślad za mistrzami panowania nad tym, co natura sama wnosi do życia: Lwem Tołstojem, Fiodorem Dostojewskim i innymi poszukiwaczami tego, co stricte ludzkie: Cyprianem Norwidem, Karolem Irzykowskim, Henri Bremondem, Guy de Maupassantem, Rainerem Marią Rilkem, Stanisławem Ignacym Witkiewiczem.
Dr Szczepan Kutrowski (ur. 1941 r.) podąża za szansami na odkrywanie racji tkwiącej w tym, co się zdarza między ludźmi. Mimo że intencje, z jakimi pojawiamy się na tym świecie, bywają rozbieżne, nie zawsze odczuwamy, że dzieli nas od siebie przepaść. Czy jesteśmy w stanie odkrywać mądrość, która kryje się w tej zdarzeniowości? Czy potrafimy odnosić się przemyślnie, czyli z dobrą wolą, do tych naszych odkryć? Czy to, co się zdarza, może być większym potwierdzeniem naszych szans od namiarów teoretycznych na nie? Czy patrząc rzeczywistości prosto w twarz, zyskujemy coś, czy tracimy? Czy zyskujemy wtedy powagę w odnoszeniu się do zdarzających się wszelako kaprysów woli? Czy zdarzające się uznanie Drugiego za równego sobie uzyskuje w naszych ekspresjach, np. w języku plastycznym czy mowie wierszowanej, odniesienia do stanu faktycznego? Nasze odczucia w tym względzie niewątpliwie są zdyskontowaniem danych nam przez naturę umiejętności pozostawania na kilku planach życia jednocześnie.
A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society.
The essay lays bare the woman artist's struggle for a voice, since throughout history she has been denied the social and economic independence assumed by men. Woolf's prescription is clear: if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a man's, she must have an independent income, and a room of her own. This is both an acute analysis and a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly resonant and relevant in the 21st century.
The novel explores these issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman whose ‘voyage out’ to South America opens up powerful encounters with her fellow-travellers, men and women. As she begins to understand her place in the world, she finds the happiness of love, but also sees its brute power. Woolf has a sharp eye for the comedy of English manners in a foreign milieu; but the final undertow of the novel is tragic as, in some of her finest writing, she calls up the essential isolation of the human spirit.
No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations – the illusory nature of much of what we call ‘progress’, the proper symbiotic relationship between man and the natural environment, the limitations of government, especially where it seeks to intrude on the personal, the moral and political case for non-violence, the dubious pleasures of material comforts, our intoxication with excess, our unrelenting search for the ‘rules’ by which we might live our lives – these, and many other matters are as real to us now as they were to Thoreau in 1845 when he began his experiment in self-sufficiency. Walden is his autobiographical record of his life of relative isolation at Walden Pond, some twenty miles west of the city of Boston, but it is also a work of detailed natural history and the expression of a philosophy of life by a deeply poetic sensibility. His essay (originally a lecture), ‘Civil Disobedience’, has over the 150 or so years since its publication exerted an enormous influence, animating thinkers such as Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi as well as political movements such as the British Labour Party, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, and various forms of oppositional activism across the globe.
Walden and ‘Civil Disobedience’ are reprinted here in a new edition alongside three of Thoreau’s seminal essays, ‘Slavery in Massachusetts’, ‘A Plea for Captain John Brown’, and ‘Life Without Principle’. Henry Claridge’s introduction illuminates the extent to which Thoreau’s writings and his thinking were a response to the dramatic changes wrought by the physical expansion of the United States and the migration of European peoples across the American sub-continent in the first half of the nineteenth-century. The edition also comes with a bibliography and extensive explanatory notes.
The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the Übermensch) are forsaken, as wit, exuberance and dazzling insights predominate, forcing the reader to face unpalatable insights and to rethink every commonly accepted 'truth'. Thinking with Nietzsche, in Jaspers' words, means holding one's own against him, and we are indeed refreshed and challenged by the vortex of his thoughts, by concepts which test and probe.
In The Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce Homo Nietzsche writes at breakneck speed of his provenance, his adversaries and his hopes for mankind; the books are largely epigrammatic and aphoristic, allowing this poet-philosopher to bewilder and fascinate us with their strangeness and their daring. He who fights with monsters, Nietzsche once told us, should look to it that he himself does not become one, and when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Reader, beware.
In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate our desires to the interests of all, the general will.
Some have seen in this the promise of a free and equal relationship between society and the individual, while others have seen it as nothing less than a blueprint for totalitarianism. The Social Contract is not only one of the great defences of civil society, it is also unflinching in its study of the darker side of political systems.
London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.
In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist's eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three.
No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. 'To pass from one to the other', writes one authority,' is to cross sides of the same street'.
Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his views in a scintillating and bewildering series of aphorisms which contain the seeds of his later philosophy (e.g. the will to power, the need to transcend conventional Christian morality). The result is one of the cornerstones of his life's work. It well deserves its subtitle ‘A Book for Free Spirits’, and its original dedication to Voltaire, whose project of radical enlightenment here finds a new champion.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is a scathing and powerful critique of philosophy, religion and science. Here Nietzsche presents us with problems and challenges that are as troubling as they are inspiring, while at the same time outlining the virtues, ideas, and practices which will characterise the philosophy of the future. Relentless, energetic, tirelessly probing, he both determines that philosophy's agenda and is himself the embodiment of the type of thought he wants to foster.
Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.
De Tocqueville examines the structures, institutions and operation of democracy, and shows how Europe can learn from American success and failures. His central theme is the advancement of the rule of the people, but he also predicts that slavery will bring about the 'most horrible of civil wars', foresees that the USA and Russia will be the Superpowers of the twentieth century, and is 150 years ahead of his time in his views on the position and importance of women.
Książka jest zbiorem 48 felietonów pisanych z miesiąca na miesiąc w latach 2013–2017. Wybitny filozof, publicysta i poeta ks. Alfred Marek Wierzbicki zaprasza czytelników do świata swojego odczuwania i własnych przemyśleń. Otwarcie dzieli się swoimi poglądami. Unika moralizowania i nie boi się protestować wobec spraw niepokojących. Pisze z głębi serca, bo jak sam zauważa: „Subiektywność i zaangażowanie są skrzydłami felietonisty”. Wnikliwe i precyzyjne pióro felietonisty dotyka zagadnień związanych z Kościołem, judaizmem, pamięcią o Żydach, uchodźcami. Zachęca do wyjścia z gorsetu schematów ograniczających myślenie. Poszerza perspektywę patrzenia na Lublin jako europejskie miasto kultury. I właśnie ten klimat Lublina, europejskiego miasta kultury, przenika książkę ks. Wierzbickiego. Szerokość horyzontów Autora sprawia, te miniatury publicystyczne nabierają ponadczasowej wartości.
Książka Rysopis kapłana. Wizerunek księdza w kulturze polskiej w XXI wieku to dwanaście tekstów, które są odpowiedzią na ankietę przygotowaną przez redaktorów czasopisma „Akcent”. Pomysłodawcy zaprosili do współpracy księży zajmujących się literaturą, sztuką oraz pracą naukową. Wśród respondentów znaleźli się m.in.: o. Tomasz Dostatni OP, ks. Alfred Wierzbicki, ks. Jerzy Szymik, o. Wacław Oszajca SJ, ks. Andrzej Luter. Pytania postawione księżom – poetom, profesorom, publicystom, duszpasterzom – dotyczyły ważkich spraw i skłoniły do wielu ciekawych przemyśleń.
Teksty wcześniej publikowane przez „Akcent” mają wyjątkową wartość – są zapisem głosu konkretnych osób, osobistymi – czasem wręcz intymnymi – refleksjami na tematy tak trudne, jak kwestia powołania, wierności własnym przekonaniom, stosunku do hierarchii Kościoła czy relacji z Bogiem.
We Wprowadzeniu abp Stanisław Budzik napisał: „Książka ta wydaje się w swym zamyśle czymś w rodzaju rozmowy o kapłaństwie prowadzonej przez samych księży, w nadziei, że dołączą do niej również czytelnicy”. Każdy, kto sięgnie po tę publikację, weźmie udział w ważnej debacie na temat obrazu kapłana w kulturze XXI wieku, podejmie dialog o tak istotnej dla historii Polski obecności kapłana i jego posługi na wielu płaszczyznach życia człowieka. Sam ostatecznie rozważy i zdecyduje, jak ma się do rzeczywistości hasło „Księża na Księżyc” wypisywane na murach i ścianach budynków.
Musimy wygrać! jak narodziła się III RPKsiążka Darii i Tomasza Nałęczów Czas przełomu 1989-1990 opisuje budowę demokratycznego państwa prawa. Możemy prześledzić, jak tworzono od podstaw system parlamentarny i samorząd na poziomie lokalnym, wprowadzano gwarancje praw obywatelskich, apolityczności policji i niezawisłości sędziów.Rewolucyjne wydarzenia, zapoczątkowane rozmowami przy Okrągłym Stole, a zwieńczone pierwszymi powszechnymi wyborami prezydenckimi autorzy przypominają z werwą i anegdotą. Odpowiadają na wiele pytań. Co się stało, że obydwie strony - my i oni - zeszły z barykady? Jak przebiegały pęknięcia w obu, z pozoru monolitycznych, blokach? Czego się bali zwycięzcy czerwcowych wyborów? Pasjonująca książka dla wszystkich, którzy chcą poznać narodziny III RP.
“Sometimes ideas change the world. This astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It’s a book whose time has come—always, but perhaps now more than ever.”—Cass Sunstein, coauthor of Nudge
Under certain conditions, small simple actions can produce large and complex “butterfly effects.” Butterfly Politics shows how Catharine A. MacKinnon turned discrimination law into an effective tool against sexual abuse—grounding and predicting the worldwide #MeToo movement—and proposes concrete steps that could have further butterfly effects on women’s rights. Thirty years after she won the U.S. Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment as illegal, this timely collection of her previously unpublished interventions on consent, rape, and the politics of gender equality captures in action the creative and transformative activism of an icon.
"This volume is an excellent introduction to the world of J. R. R. Tolkien. Recounting in images and words the story of his early years and life as a scholar and family man, the book also illustrates some of the primary items associated with ""The Hobbit"", ""The Lord of the Rings"", and ""The Silmarillion"". These include manuscripts, drawings, watercolours, letters, family photographs, and private papers. It also includes his remarkably detailed and endlessly engaging maps of Middle Earth produced over many years an annotated in his own hand.
The book brings vividly to life the astonishing range of Tolkien's skills, from scholar, to linguist, storyteller, illustrator, herald, and mapmaker. Drawing on the Bodleian Library's vast Tolkien archive, this book gives us a unique and highly personal glimpse into Tolkien's worlds – scholarly, literary, creative, and domestic.
From Tolkien's childhood in the Midlands and his experience of the First World War to his studies at school and university, and from his exquisite illustrations for his novels to his intricate and beautiful maps showing Middle-earth's topography, this stunning book, faithfully reproducing many of the treasures of the Tolkien Archive in Oxford, is the perfect introduction to Tolkien's life and works."
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