Leszek Kolakowski

Leszek Kolakowski is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Metaphysical Horror (1988), Modernity of Endless Trial (1990), and My Correct Views on Everything (2005). His celebrated three-volume Main Currents of Marxism (1976–1978) was recently published in a single-volume edition called Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders - The Golden Age - The Breakdown (2008).

My scientific method of predicting the future

In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the com

By Leszek Kolakowski

/ 22 Dec 2005