(born 1966) Polish philosopher and political scientist, with a post-doctoral degree in humanities, historian of ideas, essayist.

He graduated in Germanic philology. In 1998, he received his doctorate in Humanities at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (on the basis of his thesis entitled "Affirmative Conservatism". The structure of conservative thinking in the tradition of German political philosophy from political romanticism to Carl Schmitt). In 2013, he received a post-doctoral degree in humanities from the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw. In 1996-2000, he was an assistant and then an assistant professor at the academic department of Erasmus of Rotterdam at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of Warsaw University. From 2001 to 2015 he, worked as an assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences. In the years 2000-2002, he lectured political science at the Melchior Wankowicz Warsaw College of Journalism. Member of Collegium Invisibile. Since 2015, associate professor at Collegium Civitas and visiting professor at the College of Europe in Natolin.

He specialises in the history of political ideas, in particular in conservative thought and its contemporary reception, as well as current socio-political problems, including international relations, and especially Polish-German relations.

Since 2000, he has been the Programme Director at the Centre for International Relations in Warsaw, and since 2004 – the Programme Director at the European Centre Natolin, as well as editor-in-chief of ‘Nowa Europa. Natolin Review’. Since 2003, he has been the publisher and editor-in-chief of the annual Teologia Polityczna (‘Political Theology’). He cooperates with the Centre for Political Thought in Cracow. He has published many books, essays, and articles in the field of philosophy, political science, and international relations, including Polska-Unia Europejska, w pół drogi (‘Poland-European Union, Halfway’, 2002), Porwanie Europy (‘Kidnapping Europe’, 2004), Władza i pamięć (‘Power and Memory’, 2005), Problemy politycznej jedności w Europie (‘Problems of Political Unity in Europe’, 2012), Unia w Unii? Strefa euro w przebudowie (‘Union in the Union? Eurozone undergoing reconstruction’, 2015).

In 2007-2010, together with Dariusz Gawin and Dariusz Karłowicz, he hosted the programme Trzeci punkt widzenia (‘Third Point of View’) in TVP Kultura. He once again hosted the programme upon it’s resumption in 2016.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Ciągłość i zmiana, Więź, Warsaw 1999
• Porwanie Europy, Ośrodek Myśli Politycznej, Cracow 2004
• Władza i Pamięć, Ośrodek Myśli Politycznej, Cracow 2005
• Problem politycznej jedności w Europie, PISM, Warsaw 2012
• Północ i Południe, Teologia Polityczna, Warsaw 2018