Agnieszka Kołakowska (born 17 May 1960) is a Polish

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''trans ...

and essayist. She is the recipient of the 2012 for the essay collection ''Wojny kultur i inne wojny''. She was born in

Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

in 1960 to the family of philosopher

Leszek Kołakowski Leszek Kołakowski (; ; 23 October 1927 – 17 July 2009) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analysis of Marxism, Marxist thought, as in his three-volume history of Marxist philosophy ''Main Current ...

and Tamara Dynenson. She defines herself as a

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, as her mother is a Polish Jew.

Books

*2010: ''Wojny kultur i inne wojny'' (Wars of Cultures and Other Wars, essay collection), *2016: ''Plaga słowików'' (Plague of Nightingales, essay collection),

References

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