Krzysztof
Michalski
Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 536B
E-mail: michalski@iwm.at
Education: Ph.D., University
of Warsaw
Interests: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics,
Continental Philosophy; Director of the Institut
für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen.
(Fall semesters)
Krzysztof Michalski graduated
in 1974 with a dissertation on Heidegger (Heidegger
i Filozofia Wspolczena, Warsaw 1978).
In 1977, he translated and edited a selection
of Heidegger's essays in Polish Budowac,
Mieszkac, Myslec (Building, Dwelling,
Thinking) and translated and edited a volume
of Gadamer's works: Rozum, Slowo, Dzieje (Reason,
Word, Event , 1979).
He moved to Germany in 1977
as a Humboldt Fellow. During his stay, he joined
an international team working on Logic
and Time at the Protestant Institute
for Interdisciplinary Research in Heidelberg;
with K. Maurin and E. Rudolph he edited and published
its results (Logik und Zeit Heidelberg
1981). In 1978, he returned to Poland to teach
philosophy at the University of Warsaw.
Dr. Michalski co-chaired (with
Hans-Georg Gadamer and Gottfried Boehm) post-graduate
courses at the Interuniversity Centre in Dubrovnik
on Hermeneutics and the Arts (1981-82);
worked as Fellow Commoner of Churchill College
in England (1982-83); as a Thyssen Fellow at
the University of Heidelberg, and as Visiting
Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Vienna (1984-85). In 1983, he assumed his present
position of Rector of the Institut
für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in
Vienna. In 1986, Michalski was appointed Visiting
Professor and in 1990 Professor of Philosophy
at Boston University. In 1995 he was elected
chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Institute
for Public Affairs (Instytut Spraw Publicznych),
Warsaw.
In 1986, he was habilitated
in Philosophy at the University of Warsaw. His
second book Logika i Czas (Logic
and Time), an analysis of Husserl's theory of
sense, was published in 1988 in Warsaw; and in
1996 in English Logic and Time. An Essay
on Husserl's Theory of Meaning (Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston). He is
the editor of the bi-annual journal Transit
Europäische Revue published by Verlag
Neue Kritik, Frankfurt/M., and of the series
Castelgandolfo-Gespräche, published by Klett-Cotta
in Stuttgart.
The Executive Board and the Board of Trustees
of the Theodor-Heuss-Stiftung have
awarded the 39th Theodor Heuss Prize to Krzysztof Michalski, the Rector of the Institute
for Human Sciences, Vienna and professor of philosophy at Boston University.
The ceremony took place in the presence of the German Federal President Johannes
Rau and former President Richard von Weizsäcker. The laudation was held
by the former Prime Minister of Saxony and Professor of Law, Kurt Biedenkopf.
Previous laureates include Ralf Dahrendorf, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Günther
Grass, Juergen Habermas, Vaclav Havel, Helmut Schmidt, and Carl-Friedrich von
Weizsaecker.
Excerpt from the Jury statement: "Since the 1980s,
the Polish philosopher Krzysztof Michalski has played an important role in the
deepening of the political and cultural dialogue between East and West. Before
1989 he contributed to the liberation from Communism, and in the 1990s he supported
the development of a democratic civil society in the countries of Central and
Eastern Europe. Michalski and his Vienna Institute combine the highest intellectual
standards with policy-oriented approaches and the promotion of young researchers.
After EU enlargement this kind of work has become even more relevant. Europe
can only thrive if West and East are ready to rethink their relationship and
jointly face the challenges of the future. Krzysztof Michalski has also been
an important mediator in the transatlantic dialogue. He is a professor at Boston
University where the Institute for Human Sciences has an affiliate concentrating
on US-European relations."
Dr. Michalski's graduate level
teaching has included courses on Husserl, on
Heidegger, and on Nietzsche.
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