Timothy Snyder presents the life and thought of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish intellectual at the begninning of the 20th century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz influenced or infuriated most of the leaders of the various socialist movements of Central Europe and France. His central ideas ultimately were not accepted by the socialist mainstream at the time of his death. However, 90 years later, we see that his theories anticipated late-20th-century thought on the importance of nationalism as a social force and the parameters of socialism in political theory and praxis. Kelles-Krauz was one...Read more
Timothy Snyder presents the life and thought of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish intellectual at the begninning of the 20th century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz influenced or infuriated most of the leaders of the various socialist movements of Central Europe and France. His central ideas ultimately were not accepted by the socialist mainstream at the time of his death. However, 90 years later, we see that his theories anticipated late-20th-century thought on the importance of nationalism as a social force and the parameters of socialism in political theory and praxis. Kelles-Krauz was one of the only theoreticians of his age to advocate Jewish and Ukranian national rights as being equivalent to, for example, Polish national rights, and he correctly foresaw the struggle for national sovereignty as being central to future events in Europe.
- ISBN10 1630154172
- ISBN13 9781630154172
- Publish Date 30 October 2018 (first published 19 May 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Tantor Media, Inc
- Imprint Tantor Audio
- Edition Unabridged edition
- Format Audiobook (CD)
- Duration 13 hours and 26 minutes
- Language English