# The Captive Mind

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- Book: [The Captive Mind](https://www.bookquiver.com/czeslaw-milosz/the-captive-mind) ([The Captive Mind.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/czeslaw-milosz/the-captive-mind.md))
- Authors: [Czesław Miłosz](https://www.bookquiver.com/czeslaw-milosz)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-676-4
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2001-06-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.