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?Two halves: Poland copes with freedom
On the 35th anniversary of Poland’s modernising transformation, the question arises, how was the emancipatory...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Stealing the spectacle
A new Polish xenophobia cannot be explained only by political economy, but also needs to be understood in terms of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Polish prospects in the May 2014 elections
The European elections in Poland will be treated as a test of political parties' national popularity, rather than...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Academies of hatred
A series of public events in Wrocław, Poland’s European Capital of Culture in 2016, have been disrupted by radicals....
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Published in: HomePoland and the US elections: respect for an ally
Poland is less engaged with this American election than on previous occasions. But its people and elites are still...
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Published in: HomeBarack Obama and Poland: injurious ignorance
The American president's award to the wartime Polish hero Jan Karski was tarnished by a historical blunder that...