The Captive Mind

Name: The Captive Mind
Author: Czeslaw Milosz

by Czeslaw Milosz

Essayistic exploration of how communist ideology captured the minds of twentieth-century intellectuals

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Czeslaw Milosz

Polish-American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in 1980. His poetry engages history, memory, and metaphysics with unusual philosophical range, and The Captive Mind is his most celebrated prose work.

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