Leszek Kołakowski, Polish historian and philosopher (born 1927)

Leszek Kołakowski

Polish philosopher and historian of ideas (1927–2009)

Leszek Kołakowski was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analysis of Marxist thought, as in his three-volume history of Marxist philosophy Main Currents of Marxism (1976). In his later work, Kołakowski increasingly focused on religious…