The Windmills of Humanity: Presenting a New Translation of Czech Philosopher Ivan Sviták’s Writings on Politics and Culture

Philosopher and critic Ivan Sviták was among the leading Czech intellectuals during the lead-up to the “Prague Spring” of 1968, when tentative reforms by Communist Party leaders in Czechoslovakia sparked a mass movement for democratic socialism. Joseph Grim Feinberg (Philosophy Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences) is the editor of Ivan Sviták, The Windmills of Humanity: On Culture and Surrealism in the Manipulated World. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Chicago.