Przemysław Bursztyka

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, where he holds the position of the Chair of the Department of Philosophy of Culture. He was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2015 and 2016). He was one of the organizers and coordinators of the first series (2014-2017) of “The Humane Philosophy Project” an international initiative – realized in cooperation between University of Oxford (Blackfriars Hall and Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion) and University of Warsaw (Department of Philosophy of Culture, Institute of Philosophy – now Faculty of Philosophy). His main interests include: philosophy of culture (its current status as well as its relations with cultural studies and sociology of culture), social philosophy, philosophical ideas of Europe (with special emphasis on Eastern Europe), philosophical anthropology (especially apophatic anthropology), philosophy of subjectivity, philosophical psychology, and philosophical theories of imagination. He is the author of numerous articles and co-editor and co-author of four books: Philosophy of Culture as Theory, Method, and Way of Life: Contemporary Reflections and Applications (Leiden, 2022), Schulz. Między mitem a filozofią (Gdańsk 2014), Freud i nowoczesność (Kraków 2007 and 2008), Miłość i samotność. Wokół myśli Sørena Kierkegaarda (Warszawa 2007). He is a co-founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the philosophical quarterly Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture (https://eidos.uw.edu.pl/). He is a founder and the Head of the European Centre for Philosophy of Culture.
Last updated on March 16th, 2026.