Andrzej Przyłębski (born 14 May 1958) is a Polish philosopher and the author of six books on

Neo-Kantianism In late modern philosophy, neo-Kantianism () was a revival of the 18th-century philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The neo-Kantians sought to develop and clarify Kant's theories, particularly his concept of the thing-in-itself and his moral philosophy ...

and

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. He served as an informer

Służba Bezpieczeństwa The Security Service (; ), in full Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and commonly known as SB, was a secret police force established in the Polish People's Republic in 1956 as a successor to the Ministry of Public Security (P ...

informer (under the codename TW Wolfgang) and as ambassador to Germany from 2016 to 2022

Life

Przyłębski finished high school in

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. He has been attending piano and accordion classes as well. In 1978, he became student of philosophy and social sciences at the

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań The Adam Mickiewicz University (; Latin: ''Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis'') is a research university in Poznań, Poland. Due to its history, the university is traditionally considered among Poland's most reputable institution ...

(AMU). He graduated five years later (

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). In October 1983, he began scientific carrier at the AMU Institute of Philosophy. In 1987, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on Emil Lask's Logic of Philosophy. Between 1978 and 1980 Przyłębski was TW Wolfgang, an informant of

, the communist security services. Thanks to scholarship from the

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, from 1991 to 1993 Przyłębski spent in Heidelberg, preparing his post-doctoral thesis (

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) on the Baden School of

, with advice of

Hans-Georg Gadamer Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; 11 February 1900 – 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 on hermeneutics, '' Truth and Method'' (''Wahrheit und Methode''). Life Family and early life Gad ...

and Reiner Wiehl. In 1993, he returned from Germany and became the deputy director of the AMU Philosophical Institute. Between 1996 and 2001, he worked as a scientific representative at the Polish diplomatic missions in Cologne and Berlin. Since 2002, Przyłębski was AMU

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. In 2009, he became

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. Przyłębski has been guest lecturer at the Universities of Cologne,

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Szczecin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...

. Since 2003, he has been a member of the Committee for Philosophical Sciences of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences (, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of distinguished scholars a ...

, Warsaw. Since 2004, he has been vicepresident of the International Hegel-Society, Berlin. In 2003, he became the editor-in-chief of "Fenomenologia" scientific journal. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of three another journals: "Principia" (

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), "Przegląd Filozoficzny" (Warsaw) and "Analiza i Egzystencja" (Szczecin), as well as the Co-Editor of Hegel-Forschungen and Hegel-Jahrbücher. Przyłębski has also been a member of the Council of the Edith-Stein Research Centre in Poznań, and the President Lech Kaczynski Civic Academic Club in Poznań. He was the director of the AMU

Florian Znaniecki Florian Witold Znaniecki (; 15 January 1882 – 23 March 1958) was a Polish-born American philosopher and sociologist who taught and wrote in Poland and in the United States. Over the course of his work, he shifted his focus from philosoph ...

Centre. In July 2016, he was nominated Polish ambassador to Germany, and presented his

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to the

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. He ended his term on 31 January 2022. He is married to

Julia Przyłębska Julia Anna Przyłębska (née Żmudzińska; born 16 November 1959) is a Polish judge, she was President of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland from December 2016 to November 2024, until she resigned. Judicial career In 1982 ...

, President of the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland. They have two sons.

Works

* ''Emila Laska logika filozofii'' mil Lask's Logic of Philosophy Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 1990. * ''W poszukiwaniu królestwa filozofii. Z dziejów neokantyzmu badeńskiego'' In the Search of the Realm of Philosophy" Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 1994. * ''Hermeneutyczny zwrot filozofii'' The Hermeneutical Turn of Philosophy" Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2004. * ''Gadamer'', Warszawa:

Wiedza Powszechna Wiedza Powszechna (literally "Common Knowledge") is a publishing house in Poland. It originated in 1946 in Post World War II Poland as a subdivision of the Czytelnik publishing house, initiated by Stanisław Tazbir. In 1952, with the major rearr ...

, 2006. * ''Etyka w świetle hermeneutyki'', Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2010. * ''Duch czy życie? Studia i szkice z filozofii niemieckiej'', Poznań: WNS UAM, 2011. *''Dlaczego Polska jest wartością. Wprowadzenie do hermeneutycznej filozofii polityki'', Wydawnictwo Poznańskie 2013 (second edition; Wydawnictwo Zysk i S-ka, Poznań 2018). *''Sense, Meaning and Understanding. Towards a Systematic Hermeneutical Philosophy'', Wydydawnictwo LIT Verlag, Berlin 2013. *''Krytyka rozumu hermeneutycznego'', Preliminaria'','' Kraków 2016. *''Ethics in the Light of Hermeneutical Philosophy'', Wydawnictwo LIT Verlag, Berlin 2017. *Hermeneutyka. Od sztuki interpretacji do teorii i filozofii rozumienia, Wydawnictwo Zysk i S-ka, Poznań 2019.

Translations

, ''Dziedzictwo Europy'', Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Spacja, 1991. * R. H. Popkin/ A. Stroll, ''Filozofia'', Wyd. Zysk i S-ka, Poznań 1994 (with J. Karłowski and N. Leśniewski). *

Georg Simmel Georg Simmel (; ; 1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. Simmel was influential in the field of sociology. Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach ...

, ''Filozofia pieniądza'' (z filozoficznym komentarzem), Poznań: Wydawnictwo Humaniora, 1998. *

Ernst Troeltsch Ernst Peter Wilhelm Troeltsch (; ; 17 February 1865 – 1 February 1923) was a German liberal Protestant theologian, a writer on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of history, and a classical liberal politician. He was a member of ...

, ''Religia, kultura, filozofia'' (z krytycznym wprowadzeniem), Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 2006. * Hans-Georg Gadamer, ''Wybór pism'', n:A. Przyłębski, ''Gadamer'', Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa 2006, pp. 141–271. * Hans-Georg Gadamer, ''O skrytości zdrowia'', Poznań: Wydawnictwo Media Rodzina, 2011.

References

External links

Private website
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