Andrzej Przyłębski (born 14 May 1958, in Chmielnik near Brzózki) is a Polish philosopher, author of six books on neokantianism and on hermeneutics; past Służba Bezpieczeństwa informer codename TW Wolfgang; between 2016 and 2022 serving as an ambassador to Germany.
Prof. Andrzej Przyłębski Ph.D. | |
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.jpg) Andrzej Przyłębski (2017) | |
| Poland Ambassador to Germany | |
| In office 2016–2022 | |
| President | Andrzej Duda |
| Preceded by | Jerzy Margański |
| Succeeded by | Dariusz Pawłoś |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 May 1958 Chmielnik |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Spouse | Julia Przyłębska |
| Children | 2 sons |
| Alma mater | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| Profession | Philosopher, university teacher |
| Website | przylebski.com |
Life edit
Przyłębski finished high school in Koło. 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 (AMU). He graduated five years later (cum laude). 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.[citation needed]
Between 1978 and 1980 Przyłębski was TW Wolfgang, an informant of Służba Bezpieczeństwa, the communist security services.[1][2]
Thanks to scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, from 1991 to 1993 Przyłębski spent in Heidelberg, preparing his post-doctoral thesis (habilitation) on the Baden School of Neo-Kantianism, with advice of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Reiner Wiehl[citation needed]. 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 associate professor. In 2009, he became Full Professor.[3]
Przyłębski has been guest lecturer at the Universities of Cologne, Erlangen, Freiburg, Siegen, Szczecin.[citation needed] Since 2003, he has been a member of the Committee for Philosophical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.[3] Since 2004, he has been vicepresident of the International Hegel-Society, Berlin.[4] 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" (Kraków), "Przegląd Filozoficzny" (Warsaw)[5] and "Analiza i Egzystencja" (Szczecin),[6] as well as the Co-Editor of Hegel-Forschungen and Hegel-Jahrbücher.[7] Przyłębski has also been a member of the Council of the Edith-Stein Research Centre in Poznań,[7] and the President Lech Kaczynski Civic Academic Club in Poznań.[8] He was the director of the AMU Florian Znaniecki Centre.[9]
In July 2016, he was nominated Polish ambassador to Germany,[10] and presented his letter of credence to the President Joachim Gauck.[11] He ended his term on 31 January 2022.[12]
He is married to Julia Przyłębska, President of the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland.[10] They have two sons.[13]
Works edit
- Emila Laska logika filozofii [Emil 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, 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 edit
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, 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, Filozofia pieniądza (z filozoficznym komentarzem), Poznań: Wydawnictwo Humaniora, 1998.
- Ernst Troeltsch, Religia, kultura, filozofia (z krytycznym wprowadzeniem), Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 2006.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, Wybór pism, [in:] A. Przyłębski, Gadamer, Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa 2006, pp. 141–271.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, O skrytości zdrowia, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Media Rodzina, 2011.
References edit
- ^ "Teczka personalna TW "Wolfgang" udostępniona w poznańskim IPN". 3 March 2017.
- ^ "Nieznane fakty z przeszłości ambasadora Przyłębskiego". 20 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Nowa Nauka Polska". nauka-polska.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ "International Hegel Society e.V." hegel-gesellschaft.org. 2017-12-09. Archived from the original on 2017-12-09. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ "Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria - PAN Czytelnia Czasopism". journals.pan.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ "Redakcja.Editors | Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne" (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-10-29.
- ^ a b "Andrzej Przyłębski - Kant, Herder, Hegel, Schopenhauer,Windelband, Troeltsch, Rickert, Lask, Dilthey, Simmel, Heidegger, Husserl, Gadamer". przylebski.com. 2016-12-24. Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ "Członkowie". ako.poznan.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2015-03-17. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
- ^ "Zapis przebiegu posiedzenia Komisji Spraw Zagranicznych /nr 23/". www.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). 2016-04-28. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
- ^ a b "Prof. Andrzej Przyłębski ambasadorem w Niemczech". Głos Wielkopolski (in Polish). 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ "www.bundespraesident.de: Der Bundespräsident / Startseite / Akkreditierung von Botschaftern". www.bundespraesident.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ "Niemcy: ambasador Przyłębski kończy swoją misję dyplomatyczną w Berlinie". Polska Agencja Prasowa SA (in Polish). 2022-01-31. Archived from the original on 2022-02-01. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
- ^ Poncelet, Tim (2016-08-10). "Neuer Botschafter der Republik Polen in Deutschland: Andrzej Przyłębski | Netzwerk EBD" (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-29.