Adam J. Chmielewski is professor at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Wrocław, Poland. He studied philosophy and social sciences at the universities in Wrocław, Oxford, New York and Edinburgh. He has authored several books, among them Popper’s Philosophy: A Critical Analysis (1995) Incommensurability, Untranslatability, Conflict (1997), Open Society or Community? (2001), Two Conceptions of Unity (2006) and Psychopathology of Political Life (2009). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia, and a member of editorial boards of several Polish and international journals. He is also a social activist and political columnist. He publishes blogs: Interventions: Philosophical and Political; Contra-Dictions, and Meetings Downtown and has contributed a number of essays to openDemocracy. His latest book is Politics and Recognition: Towards a New Political Aesthetics (Routledge, 2020).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mental confinementIs it not true that this now-suspended normality was experienced by most of us as burdensome, painful, unbearable,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Perception and politics – the case of Poland: coping with political apparitionsIs there a gap between conservative neoliberalism and conservative nationalism, within which emancipatory ideas...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Unsympathetic people: the overwhelming success of Poland's exclusionary agendaThree elements seem to have played a decisive role in this: voluntary servitude, the Polish brand of inferiority...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The guilt, dignity and pedagogy of shamelessnessFor centuries, Europe’s Christians have shut Jews behind ghetto walls. Now, Polish Christians intend to shut the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Saving Christianity through the Benedict OptionThe idea of the select few isolating themselves from what they perceive as an enfeebled, morally weakened or ailing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Two halves: Poland copes with freedomOn the 35th anniversary of Poland’s modernising transformation, the question arises, how was the emancipatory...