Andrzej Leder (born 1960) is a Polish philosopher of culture, practicing

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, and internationally recognized expert on Polish cultural history.

Biography

Andrzej Leder, the son of

Witold Leder Witold Leder (December 8, 1913 - April 16, 2007) was a Polish military intelligence officer, activist, translator, and author. He shared in the ups and downs of the anti-Stalinist current of Polish communism, in which he was a lifelong participan ...

and Ewa Lipińska, graduated from the

Medical University of Warsaw The Medical University of Warsaw ( Polish name: '' Warszawski Uniwersytet Medyczny'', Latin name: ''Universitas Medica Varsoviensis'') is one of the oldest and the largest medical school in Poland. The first academic department of medicine was crea ...

, and in philosophy from the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

. He then obtained his doctorate from the

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk) is a scientific Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, based in the Palace of Technology in Warsaw. Its p ...

, supervised by Professor . He has worked at the latter institute since 1996, including from 2010 as an associate professor. Leder engages regularly in public debates on culture and memory in Poland. He has contributed to the periodical from 1992 to 2012, and more recently to the weekly magazine . In 2015, his book ''The Sleepwalkers’ Revolution'' was nominated for the prestigious Polish

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, and also for the .

Selected works

* ''Przemiana mitów, czyli życie w epoce schyłku. Zbiór esejów'' (Warsaw: OPEN Publishing, 1997), translated as ''The Changing Guise of Myths: Philosophical Essays'' (Peter Lang GmbH, 2013) * ''Nieświadomość jako pustka'' ("Unawareness as Emptiness"; Warsaw: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2001) * ''Nauka Freuda w epoce Sein und Zeit'' ("The Teachings of Freud during the ''Sein und Zeit'' Period"; Warsaw: Aletheia Publishing, 2007) * ''Prześniona rewolucja. Ćwiczenia z logiki historycznej'' ("The Sleepwalkers’ Revolution: Exercices in Historical Logic"; Warsaw:

Krytyka Polityczna ''Krytyka Polityczna'' (; "The Political Critique") is a circle of Polish left-wing intellectuals gathered around a journal of the same title founded by Sławomir Sierakowski in 2002 but is open to voices from across the political spectrum. The ...

, 2014) * ''Rysa na tafli'' ("Scratch on the Glass"; Warsaw:

Polish Scientific Publishers PWN Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN (''Polish Scientific Publishers PWN''; until 1991 ''Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe'' - ''National Scientific Publishers PWN'', PWN) is a Polish book publisher, founded in 1951, when it split from the Wydawnictwa Szkolne i P ...

, 2016) * ''Był kiedyś postmodernizm... Sześć esejów o schyłku XX stulecia'' ("Once Upon A Time, Postmodernism... Six Essays on the Late 20th Century"; Warsaw: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018)

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Philosophers of culture University of Warsaw alumni 21st-century Polish philosophers Polish psychiatrists Polish Academy of Sciences faculty 1960 births Living people People from Warsaw {{Philosopher-stub

Biography

Selected works

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