Adam Chmielewski

Adam J. Chmielewski is Professor Ordinarius in the Institute of Philosophy, University of Wrocław, Poland, 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), Open Society or Community? (2001), Two Conceptions of Unity (2006) and Psychopathologies of Political Life (2009). He translated from English 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 (www.studiaphilosophica.pl) and a member of editorial boards of several Polish and international journals. In 2011, as a director of the institution of culture Wroclaw 2016, he authored the successful bid of the city of Wrocław for the title of the European Capital of Culture 2016.