Polish poet and essayist who wrote The Captive Mind — an anatomy of how intellectuals accommodate to totalitarianism — and was one of the great poets of the 20th century.
The Captive Mind: four case studies of Polish intellectuals who accommodated to Communism — the psychological mechanisms of ideological submission. Ketman: the practice of maintaining an inner freedom while performing outward conformity (borrowed from Gobineau). A major poet in Polish and a crucial witness to totalitarianism.
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