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Name:: Szymon Wróbel Address: Dobrzyńska 1, 62-800 Kalisz; Poland Phone: E-mail: [email protected] Place and Birth Date: Poznań, 24. 01. 1967.

Education:

2013 Institute of and Sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences, - title of Professor in . 2003 Examination on the Thesis Presented to Qualify as Assistant Professor (Degree Concentration: Social Philosophy): Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. 1996 Ph. D. Thesis (Degree Concentration: Philosophy of Mind): Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. 1990-1985 Master of Art Thesis (In the Field of Clinical Psychology): Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Department of Social Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Psychology. 1985-1981 Secondary School in Jarocin (In the Class of Mathematical-Physical Profile). 1981-1973 Primary School

Awards, Grants, Honours:

2013 Scholarship awarded by the Fondazione Kristina B. Przyjemska Sbranti and Rettore dell Università di Pisa for a research project entitled: Polish Depressive Position: From Gombrowicz to Mrożek 2013 Distinction in philosophical essay competition in the field of metaphysics announced by the Barbara Skarga Foundation for Thought 2012 Organization of the Conference: The Experience of Animality In Culture, Science And Daily Life - Faculty of Artes Librales, http://www.animality.ibi.uw.edu.pl/ 2011 Individual Award of Warsaw University Rector for scientific activity 2008-2011 Coordinator of the Polish-Bulgarian Joint Research Project for Years 2009-2011 entitled – Transformations of Social Sciences in Knowledge-Based Society [Under the Agreement on Scientific Cooperation between the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences]

1 October 2007 Organization of the Conference: Chiaroscuros of Imagination Department for Pedagogy and Arts in Kalisz, Adam Mickiewicz University November 2006 Organization of the Conference: Illusions of Memory Department for Pedagogy and Arts in Kalisz, Adam Mickiewicz University 2005-2006 Coordinator of the STREP (Specific Targeted Research Projects) entitled New Europe and the Frontier-Identity. In Framework Program: Citizens and Governance in the Knowledge Based Society announced by European Commission. Reference Number: FP6- 029060 (under the call FP6-2004-CITIZENS-5 6th Framework Programme). Since 2005 Coordinator of the research project of the British Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences entitled Post- . Psychoanalysis. Politics. September 2005 Organization of the Conference: The Debate on the Nature and Character of Linguistic Competence [Governmental Centre of Librarian Teaching in Jarocin] 2004 Fellowship in Manchester Metropolitan University (Department of Politics and Philosophy) 2004 Award of Prime Minister for the habilitation thesis and the book Power and Reason. The Reflective Stages of the Critical Social Theory September 2004 Organization of the Conference: The Forms of Mental Representation [Governmental Centre of Librarian Teaching in Jarocin] 2003 and 2004 Nominated for the Literary Award – Paszporty Polityki. 2003 Award of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań 2001 Organization of the Conference: Philosophy and Philology. Explanation – Understanding – Sympathy [Governmental Centre of Librarian Teaching in Jarocin] 2000–2002 Grant assigned by Scientists Research Committee (Decision Nr.: 1 H01A 004 19) for the research project on the title: The Power of the Subject under the Self and the Self as the Subject of the Power. The Analyzes of the Dispute between ’s of Care for the Self of and Jürgen Habermas’ Ethics of Discourse. 1999 Nominated for the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. 1999 Junior Fellowship, Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen), Vienna. 1998 Publication of The Discovery of Unconscious, Foundation for the Polish Science. 1997 Nominated for the Literary Award – Paszporty Polityki. 1990 Award of the Dean of the Social Sciences Department for a Master’s degree under the title: The Zero Point of Cognition.

2 Experience:

1996–2002 Family Health Institute of Mother and Child Hospital in Kalisz. Duties: Diagnosis and individual and family therapy. 1996–1991 Rehabilitative-Educational Centre for Handicapped in Kalisz. Duties: Group Behaviour Therapy

Professional Affiliations:

2008-present Faculty of Artes Librales, University of Warsaw: Professor http://www.obta.uw.edu.pl/en-208 2002-present Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw: Professor of Philosophy http://www.ifispan.waw.pl/index.php?lang=en&m=page&pg id=2 99 1996-2012 Department for Pedagogy and Arts in Kalisz, Adam Mickiewicz University: Associate Professor of Philosophy. 1991-1988 Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Department of Social Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Psychology.

List of Publications: a. Books: In English

1. Deferring the Self, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang - International Academic Publishers (Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas ) 2013. http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&sei tentyp=produkt&pk=75868&cid=277 2. Grammar and Glamour of Cooperation. Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind, Language and Action, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang - International Academic Publishers (Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences) 2014. http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&sei tentyp=produkt&pk=80260&concordeid=265091 3. The Animals in Us - We in Animals, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang - International Academic Publishers (Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences) 2014. http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&sei tentyp=produkt&pk=79232&concordeid=265039

In Polish: (1) Exercises in Friendship, Kraków: Universitas Press: Kraków 2012; 3 (2) Mind, Grammar, Evolution. Essays on Theory of Knowledge and Cognitive Sciences, Warsaw: PWN 2010; (3) The School as Fiction and Essays in Philosophy of Education [with Radosław Nawrocki], Poznań-Kalisz: University Press 2010; (4) The Limits of the Political (with Paweł Dybel) Warsaw: Aletheia Press 2008; (5) Power and Reason. The Reflective Stages of the Critical Social Theory, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznań 2002; (6) The Galaxies, Libraries, Ashes. The Cartography of Monstrous Literature, Universitas Press, Kraków 2001; (7) The Discovery of the Unconscious or Destruction of the Cartesian Concept of Mind?, Foundation for the Polish Science, Warszawa-Wrocław 1997. b. Editions 1. Forms of Mental Representation, ed. Robert Piłat, Marian Walczak, Szymon Wróbel, IFiS PAN Press, Warszawa 2006; 2. The University: Politics of Power – Information Industry – Education as a Spectacle, ed. Szymon Wróbel, Poznań-Kalisz: WPA UAM Press, 2006; 3. Illusions of Memory, ed. Szymon Wróbel, Poznań-Kalisz: WPA UAM Press, 2007; 4. Modularity of Mind, ed. Szymon Wróbel, Poznań-Kalisz: WPA UAM Press, 2007. 5. Tacit Functions of Mind, ed. Szymon Wróbel, Poznań-Kalisz: WPA UAM Press, 2008. 6. Chiaroscuros of Imagination, ed. Szymon Wróbel, Poznań-Kalisz: WPA UAM Press, 2008. c. Articles: Wróbel has published over 80 articles in academic journals in Polish and English.

In English: 1. Funeral policy: the case of mourning populism in Poland, [in:] Nationalism and the Body Politic. Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia, (ed.) Lene Auestad, Great Britain: Karnac Books Ltd 2014, pp. 65-85. 1. reads Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and The Territory, [in:] Questions of Arts. Questions of Image - Questioning through Image, (ed.) Joanna Dudek, Kalisz: Galeria Sztuki im Jana Tarasina 2013, pp. 85-102. 2. Rethinking language faculty. Has language evolved for other than language related reasons?, [in:] “Theoria Et Historia Scientiarum. An International Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies”, VOL. IX, Ed. Nicolaus Copernicus University 2012, pp. 201- 217. 3. Enlightenment in Trouble. Nicholas Maxwell In The Search For Wisdom-Inquiry, [in:] “Dialogue and Universalism”, No. 3/2012, pp. 79-93. 4. In Praise For Monstrosities. The Case of Niccolo Machiavelli, [in:] “Polish Sociological Review” No. 4 (180) 2012, pp. 455-475. 5. The concept of linguistic intelligence and beyond, [in:] (ed.) M. Pawlak, New Perspectives on Individual Differences in Language Learning and Teaching, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Verlag 2012, s. 115-127. 6. Mourning Populism. The Case Of Poland, [in:] “Polish Sociological Review”, nr 4 (171) 2011, s. 437-457.

4 7. Three Styles of Practicing Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities, [in:] The Humanities Today and the Idea of Interdisciplinary Studies, ed. Barbara Bokus, Warsaw: Matrix 2011, pp. 291-294. 8. Either Thinkimg or Art, [in:] Quotations Marks, ed. Bożena Czubak, Profile Foundations Warsaw 2010, s. 237-254. 9. Between kinship and alienation. Three fantastic tales about man in nature, [in:] Birthday Beasts' Book. Cultural Studies in Honour of Jerzy Axer. Ed. Katarzyna Marciniak, Warsaw 2011, pp. 471-488. 10. Foucault reads Freud: The Dialogue with Unreason and Enlightenment, “Polish Sociological Review”, nr 3 (171) 2010, s. 271-289. 11. Open Pedagogy: Building Bridges to Democracy, [in:] Brücken/Bridges/Mosty, (ed.) Jerzy Wypych, Poznań – Kalisz: Wydawnictwo WPA UAM, 2009, s. 24-28. 12. A Metaphysician in the Land of Cyborgs. On Robert Piłat’s book On the Nature of Concepts, „Polish Journal of Philosophy”, Vol. II/2, Kraków: Jagiellonian University 2008, s. 127-139. 13. Beyond Identity. Beyond Europe, [in:] The New Europe. Uncertain Identity and Borders, (ed.) Małgorzata Kowalska, Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku 2007, s. 123-141. 14. What are rules of grammar? A view from the psychological and linguistic perspective, [in:] “Studies in Pedagogy and Fine Arts”, ed. M. Pawlak, Poznań – Kalisz: Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Press, 2007, s. 93-112.

Educational work:

Faculty of Artes Librales, Since 2009, Wróbel prepared and conducted the following University of Warsaw seminars: The Limits of politics (2009), Philosophy of language (2010), Philosophy and (2010), Philosophy and literature (2011), Philosophy and music (2011), The World according to Roland Barthes (2012), Philosophy of literature (2012), Fantasies about the nature and politics. Around (2013), Two bodies of cynic. Around (2013) Crossing the biopolitics (2014) René Girard on violence, jealousy, and things hidden since the birth of the world (2014). Graduate School for Social From 2004 Wróbel lectures in Graduate School for Social Research at the IPS PAS Research at the IPS PAS. Topics of the seminars: The limits of Warsaw the political (2006), Biopolitics, bio-power, bio-engineering (2007), On the philosophy of power of Thomas Hobbes (2008), The mass, plebs, people, mob: in the search for a new political subject (2009), Reading Spinoza (2010), Strategy and tactics in the work of Niccolò Machiavelli (2012), Thucydides’ war and the modern world (2013), The practice of everyday life (2014)..

5 Realization of grants and research projects:

Period of Project’s title realization The Power of the Subject under the Self and the Self as the Subject of the 2000- 2002 Power. The Analyzes of the Dispute between Michel Foucault’s Ethics of (Decision Nr: 1 Care for the Self of and Jürgen Habermas’ Ethics of Discourse H01A 00419) The Limits of the Political. From the Policy of Emancipation to Politics of 2005- 2008 Life (Decision:1H01 1700128) An Attempt to Synthesize Semantic and Cognitive Theory of Concepts 2005- 2007 (Decision: 1H01 A02528) The Traditions of Mediterranean Humanism and the Challenges of Our Times: 2010- 2014 – the Frontiers of Humanity. International PHD Program funded by the (Decision Foundation for Polish Science MPD/2009-3/1) http://www.mpd.ibi.uw.edu.pl/?page=faculty

Warsaw School of the History of Ideas and Its Importance in the Polish 2012-2016 Humanities. Ministry of Science and Higher Education approved for (Decision 11H 11 funding under 1.1 module program called "National Programme for the 018180) Development of Humanities"

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