is a professor at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Wrocław, Poland. He is also a social activist and political columnist. He studied philosophy and social sciences at the universities in Wrocław, Oxford, New York, and Edinburgh. He authored several books, among them Popper’s Philosophy. A Critical Analysis (1995) Incommensurability, Untranslatability, Conflict (1997, 2014), Open Society or Community? (2001), Two Conceptions of Unity (2006) Psychopathology of Political Life (2009),and Politics and Recognition. Towards a New Political Aesthetics (Routledge 2020). He translated from the English language into Polish a number of books, among them works by Bertrand Russell, Karl Popper, Alasdair MacIntyre, Richard Shusterman, Slavoj Žižek, as well as some works of fiction. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia, and a member of editorial boards of several Polish and international journals. In 2011 he authored successful bid of the city of Wrocław the title of European Capital of Culture. Last updated on September 30th, 2023.
