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Czeslaw Milosz • 156 Items / 30 Books, 52 Articles, 5 Reviews, 69 Poems
The Captive Mind (1953)
by Czeslaw Milosz
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  1. [+]
    Endurance and Miracle (Review)
    Karl Jaspers
    The Captive Mind, by Czeslaw Milosz
    1. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    The Saturday Review, June 6, 1953, p. 13
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    Coercion from Within (Review)
    Paul Kecskemeti
    The Captive Mind, by Czeslaw Milosz
    1. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    Commentary, September 1953, pp. 275-277
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    The Fatal Payment (Review)
    William P. Clancy
    The Captive Mind, by Czeslaw Milosz
    1. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    Commonweal, July 3, 1953, pp. 328-329
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    The Sack and Enslavement of the Mind: Two Views (Review)
    Stephen Spender
    The Predatory Jailer
    1. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    The New Republic, June 22, 1953, p. 18
  5. Literature and the Arts
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    The Sack and Enslavement of the Mind: Two Views (Review)
    Henry Bamford Parkes
    The Intelligent Devil
    1. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    The New Republic, June 22, 1953, p. 18
  6. [+]
    Atlantic Bookshelf (3 Reviews)
    Potpourri
    1. The Kremlin vs. the People by Robert Magidoff
    2. M is for Mother by Marjorie Riddell
    3. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    The Atlantic Monthly, July 1953, p. 86
  7. [+]
    Return of the Native (5 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Issa Valley, by Czeslaw Milosz
    1. The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz
    2. Native Realm by Czeslaw Milosz
    3. Emperor of the Earth by Czeslaw Milosz
    4. Bells in Winter by Czeslaw Milosz
    5. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    The New York Review of Books, June 25, 1981, pp. 29-33
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    Recent Books on International Relations (12 Reviews)
    Henry L. Roberts
    Eastern Europe
    1. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    2. Sociology and Psychology of Communism by Jules Monnerot
    3. Russia: What Next? by Isaac Deutscher
    4. Malenkov: Stalin's Successor by Martin Ebon
    5. Current Soviet Policies by Leo Gruliow
    6. The Kremlin vs. the People by Robert Magidoff
    7. Soviet Economic Growth by Abram Bergson
    8. Soviet National Income and Product in 1937 by Abram Bergson
    9. The Nationality Problem of the Soviet Union by Roman Smal-Stocki
    10. The End of a Revolution by Fritz Sternberg
    11. The Tragedy of the Baltic States by John Alexander Swettenham
    12. Albanian Expose by Glenn A. McLain
    Foreign Affairs, October 1953, pp. 162-163
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    New Books (14 Reviews)
    C. Hartley Grattan
    Economics: Elegant and Practical
    1. Economic Stability in a Changing World by John Henry Williams
    2. Europe and the United States in the World Economy by Robert Marjolin
    3. Economic Survey of Europe Since the War
    4. The Government's Role in Economic Life by George Albert Steiner
    5. Economics in the Public Service by Edwin G. Nourse
    6. The Federal Debt: Structure and Impact by Charles Cortez Abbott
    7. Economic Essays by Roy F. Harrod
    8. The Organizational Revolution by Kenneth E. Boulding
    9. Ideas of the Great Economists by George Henry Soule
    10. The Development of Economic Thought by Henry William Spiegel
    11. Shares of Upper Income Groups in Income and Savings by Simon Kuznets and Elizabeth Jenks
    12. The American Way by Shepard B. Clough
    13. Soviet Economic Growth by Abram Bergson
    14. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    The Harpers Monthly, August 1953, pp. 98-101
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    New Books (15 Reviews)
    Gilbert Highet
    You Shall Know Them, by Vercors
    1. You Shall Know Them by Vercors
    2. A Dog's Head by Jean Dutourd
    3. The Singer, Not the Song by Audrey Erskine Lindop
    4. The Passionate Land by Geoffrey A. Wagner
    5. Study in Power by Allan Nevins
    6. King George the Fifth by Harold G. Nicolson
    7. Winston Churchill: The Era and the Man by Virginia Cowles
    8. The Diplomats, 1919-1939 by Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert
    9. What Is History? by V. Gordon Childe
    10. Decline of the Roman Empire by F.W. Walbank
    11. Heresy, Yes--Conspiracy, No by Sidney Hook
    12. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    13. The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1 by Robert Musil
    14. Good Morning, Young Lady by Ardyth Kennelly
    15. The Dark Angel by Mika Waltari
    The Harpers Monthly, July 1953, pp. 96-99
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    Books in Review (23 Reviews)
    Frank S. Meyer
    You Shall Know Them, by Vercors
    1. You Shall Know Them by Vercors
    2. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    3. The Living Brain by W. Grey Walter
    4. Solitude and Privacy by Paul Halmos
    5. Paths of Loneliness by Margaret Mary Wood
    6. The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry by Harry Stack Sullivan
    7. Jung's Psychology and Its Social Meaning by Ira Progoff
    8. God and the Unconscious by Victor White
    9. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology by C.G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, and R.F.C. Hull
    10. Psychology and Alchemy by C.G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, and R.F.C. Hull
    11. The Gods of the Greeks by Carl Kerenyi
    12. Divine Horsemen by Maya Deren
    13. The Italian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson
    14. Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry by Jacques Maritain
    15. African Folktales and Sculpture by Paul Radin, Elinore Marvel, and James Johnson Sweeney, ...
    16. Art in the Ice Age by Hans-Georg Bandi, Johannes Maringer, and Hugo Obermaier, ...
    17. A Critical History of Children's Literature by Cornelia L. Meigs, Anne Eaton, and Elizabeth Nesbitt, ...
    18. A Popular Guide to Government Publications by W. Philip Leidy
    19. The Revolution in Physics by Louis de Broglie
    20. Mr. Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life by George Gamow
    21. The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1 by Robert Musil
    22. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
    23. Mr. Nicholas by Thomas Hinde
    The American Mercury, September 1953, pp. 134-144
  12. The Revolving Bookstand
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    The most neglected books (42 Reviews)
    The Time of Man, by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
    1. The Time of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
    2. The America of Jose Marti by Jose Marti
    3. Witness to the Truth by Edith Hamilton
    4. The End of the World by Geoffrey Dennis
    5. Pylon by William Faulkner
    6. Posthistoric Man by Roderick Seidenberg
    7. Sonnets by Hyder E. Rollins and William Shakespeare
    8. Union Now: With Great Britain by Clarence K. Streit
    9. World Order by Lionel Curtis
    10. Intellectual Things by Stanley J. Kunitz
    11. Adventures of Ideas by Alfred North Whitehead
    12. Essays and Addresses by John Burnet
    13. Last and First Men and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
    14. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
    15. The North Atlantic Triangle by John Bartlet Brebner
    16. The Era of Tyrannies by Elie Halevy
    17. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province by Perry Miller
    18. Concord River by William Brewster
    19. A Treatise on Money by John Maynard Keynes
    20. Magister Ludi by Hermann Hesse
    21. The Night of Time by Rene Fulop-Miller
    22. The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
    23. Not Guilty by John Dewey
    24. To Begin with by Raymond Pearl
    25. The Art of Walt Disney by Robert D. Feild
    26. The Attack on Leviathan by Donald Davidson
    27. Five Cities by George R. Leighton
    28. Conversation with the Earth by Hans Cloos
    29. Symbol and Metaphor in Human Experience by Martin Foss
    30. Serenade to the Big Bird by Bert Stiles
    31. The Mercy of the Court by Monica E. Porter
    32. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
    33. The Root and the Flower by L.H. Myers
    34. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    35. From Day to Day by Odd Nansen
    36. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
    37. The Great Wall Crumbles by Grover Clark
    38. Force and Freedom by Jacob Burckhardt and James Hastings Nichols
    39. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    40. The Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon
    41. Academic Illusions in the Field of Letters and the Arts by Martin Schutze
    42. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans
    The American Scholar, Autumn 1956, pp. 472-503