Jadwiga Staniszkis (born April 26, 1942 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

) is a Polish sociologist and

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, essayist, a former professor at the

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and the Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu (Higher Business School), a Polish campus of

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Biography

Staniszkis is the granddaughter of the interwar politician Witold Teofil Staniszkis who was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941 during German occupation of

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. Jadwiga Staniszkis studied sociology at the Warsaw University Faculty of Philosophy, obtaining a PhD in 1971 ("Patologie struktur organizacyjnych"). In 1978, she completed her habilitation in the humanities, in the department of sociology. Since 1991, she has been working as a university professor. After her graduation, Staniszkis worked at the Department of Sociology at her alma mater. She actively contributed to political life at the university and was dismissed from the university and arrested for seven months for attending the protests of students and intellectuals against the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland during the

1968 Polish political crisis The Polish 1968 political crisis, also known in Poland as March 1968, Students' March, or March events ( pl, Marzec 1968; studencki Marzec; wydarzenia marcowe), was a series of major student, intellectual and other protests against the ruling Pol ...

. She is the author of several books on phenomena of socialism. Her first book about the dialectics of socialist society was translated into Japanese, but the Polish manuscript was confiscated by the secret service (SB) and lost. Her second book on the Solidarity movement has never been translated to Polish due to controversy, although it was published in French (two years before 'original' English edition). The fate of her book about the dynamics of transformation in Poland was similar, as it has not been published in Poland. Most of her works have been published after the transformation of the political system in Poland.

Awards

In 2004 Staniszkis was awarded the

Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science The Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science () is the most prestigious scientific award in Poland given every year from 1992 by a non-governmental non-profit Polish organization, Foundation for Polish Science (). The prize is widely regarded a ...

, called the 'Polish

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' in Poland. On 31 August 2006, President

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awarded her the Commander's Cross of the

Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on foreigners for outstanding achievement ...

Works

*''Poland's Self-Limiting Revolution'' (1984) *“Forms of Reasoning as Ideology”
''Telos''
66 (Winter 1985-86). New York: Telos Press. *''The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe: The Polish Experience''. Berkeley, California: University of Berkeley Press, 1991. *''The Ontology of Socialism'' (1992) *''Post-communism: Emerging Enigma'' (1999) *"The Epistemologies of Order: An Inquiry Into Genesis, Clashes and Collapse, ", in J. Koltan (ed.) ''Solidarity and the Crisis of Trust'', Gdansk: European Solidarity Centre, 2016, pp. 95–120 (http://www.ecs.gda.pl/title,pid,1471.html).

References

External links

* *''Conflict over the Future of Eastern Europe: Russian, Hungarian and Polish Globalists'', June 7, 1989 lecture available online vi
C-Span Video Library
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