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COLD FRIDAY by Whittaker Chambers. 327 pages. Random House. $5.95.
Whittaker Chambers spent his life searching for final answers. Spurred by "the need for truth" and "the fear of error," his search carried him into what Albert Camus called "those waterless deserts where thought reaches its confines." After the glaring publicity of the Alger Hiss trial and the 1952 publication...
In Disgrace. Part of Chambers' loneliness was the fact that he was a philosopher in an unphilosophical nation. He was a Hegelian, seemingly unaware or uncaring that Hegelianism had been in philosophic disgrace for half a century. Hegel believed that history moved in terms of a set of abstract...
But it forced Chambers' thought processes into a rigid either-or frame that, once accepted, he could never escape-and it led naturally to a trust in Marxism. He was incapable of dealing with ideas as an intellectual game. "For me," he confessed, "an idea was the starting point...
No Escape. Despite such entrapping juxtapositions, Chambers finally rejected Communism because it was ineradicably evil, but he wrote: "I have found that the mood of Communism (despite its atrocious features) is a mood of hope, while the West (despite its gracious features) promotes a mood of despair."