The Reluctant Political Thinker by Sherman W. Garnett - 9783111573526

The Reluctant Political ThinkerCzes?aw Mi?osz on Crisis, the Poetic Life, and the Cold War Political Imaginary\nAuthor(s): Sherman W. Garnett\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, Germany\nImprint: De Gruyter\nISBN-13: 9783111573526, 978-3111573526\nSynopsis\nCzes?aw Mi?osz was a poet and public writer for almost eight decades, and still remains a tremendous figure in world literature four decades after he won the Nobel Prize and two decades after his death. Mi?osz saw himself as an artist flying above the political fray, but he left the building blocks for an analysis of his political and social thought in plain sight. In this book, Sherman Garnett explores this crucial, neglected aspect of Mi?oszs thinking by closely studying a wide range of his Polish and English writings, arguing that he held a unique, nuanced political philosophy. Mi?oszs observations on totalitarianism and democracy, dissent, emigration, the United States and Soviet Union, and the great crisis of civilizati.