Is God Happy?
  • Published: 2 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141389554
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

Is God Happy?

Selected Essays

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From one of the world's great philosophers, an illuminating posthumous collection of essays

In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of evil, Erasmus and the reform of the Church, reason and truth, and whether God is happy. Accessible and absorbing, the essays in Is God Happy? deal with some of the eternal problems of philosophy and the most vital questions of our age.
  • Published: 2 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141389554
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Leszek Kolakowski

Leszek Kolakowski was the first recipient of the million-dollar John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and he is the recipient of the 2007 Jerusalem Prize. He lives in Oxford, England.

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Praise for Is God Happy?

There can be few more eminent figures in the world of ideas

The Times

The most esteemed philosopher

Independent

His distinctive mix of irony and moral seriousness, religious sensibility and epistemological scepticism, social engagement and political doubt was truly rare ... a true Central European intellectual - perhaps the last

Tony Judt, The New York Times Review of Books