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Course Description

Instructor: Katia Mitova.  Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was born in Lithuania and lived in Poland, France, and the United States. For the "uncompromising clear-sightedness” with which he voices human condition “in a world of severe conflicts," Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize. Our discussion of Milosz’s seminal work on totalitarianism, The Captive Mind (1953) – an imaginative essay illuminating “the stages by which the mind gives way to compulsion from without” (Preface, p. xiv) – will be supplemented by a close reading of his poems concerned with the great philosophical and moral questions of the Western world. Accessible and wise, Milosz’s writing tends to provoke insightful discussions.

For our first class, please read Chapter I (pp. 3-25) of The Captive Mind. Bring to class both assigned books.

Course code: BASC70214 Literature Philosophy 

Course Outline

Reading List

Czeslaw Milosz. The Captive Mind. Vintage.
ISBN-13: 978-0679728566

Czeslaw Milosz. New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001. Ecco.
ISBN-13: 978-0060514488

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