Der Lebensweg von Leszek Kołakowski : vom Befürworter zum Kritiker des Marxismus

Kurzfassung/Abstract

The biography of L. Kolakowski is closely related to the shape of his phi-losophical thoughts. Marxism - as the first stage of the ideological evolu-tion of Polish philosopher - not only marked the beginning of the scientific career of L. Kolakowski, but also made his life a kind of "intellectual ad-venture", which was initially firmly rooted in atheism rejecting any religion understood as a brake on human development. The stage of revisionism of Marxist ideas translated into a more humanistic direction in the reflection of L. Kolakowski, where man, not history, is perceived as an active creator of values. The last stage, the post-Marxist stage, opens a long and abundanttrail of "critical sympathy" towards Christianity in the intellectual biographyof L. Kolakowski. Since then, his mind focuses almost exclusively onreligious themes, among which the problem of God is the most importantin the context of unraveling and understanding the mystery of man.