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Vice-Dean for Educational Affairs

prof. dr hab. Leszek Sosnowski

prof. dr hab. Leszek Sosnowski

Date of birth
03.06.1955
Conducts research and teaching activities at the Department of Philosophy of Culture at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University.Head of the research project „The Roman Ingarden Digital Archive”. Founder and editor-in-chief of the philosophical and aesthetic quarterly „The Polish Journal of Aesthetics”. Co-author of „Słownik pojęć filozoficznych Romana Ingardena” (2001).

e-mail: leszek.sosnowski@uj.edu.pl

"There's nothing more debauched than thinking.
This sort of wantonness runs wild like a wind-borne weed
on a plot laid out for daisies.

Nothing's sacred for those who think.
Calling things brazenly by name,
risqué analyses, salacious syntheses,
frenzied, rakish chases after the bare facts,
the filthy fingerings of touchy subjects,
discussion in heat—it's music to their ears."

Wisława Szymborska

prof. dr hab. Leszek Sosnowski | Biogram

Education

  • Graduate of Technikum Żeglugi Śródlądowej in Koźle (1970-75),
  • Employee of Huta Katowice i Kopalni Węgla Kamiennego „Manifest Lipcowy” (1975-76),
  • Degree in Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (1976-83),
  • Degree in Polish Philology, Jagiellonian University (1978-80).

Professional and scientific degrees

Master's Degree in Philosophy in 1983; Doctoral Dissertation Defense and Doctoral Degree in 1993; Doctor of Philosophy Degree (postdoctoral degree) in 2007 and the title of Professor of Humanities in 2013.

Positions held

  1. President of the Polish Philosophical Society, Cracow Branch: 2024.
  2. Vice-Dean of Faculty of Philosophy: 2012-2014 / 2019 – 2020 / 2020 – 2024.
  3. Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Discipline of Philosophy, IF UJ: 2019 – 2020 / 2021 – 2022.
  4. Head of the Roman Ingarden Digital Archive: 2018 - 2024.
  5. Chairman of the Roman Ingarden Centre for Philosophical Research: 2020 - 2024.
  6. Ars Docendi Commission: 2012 - 2014, 2018 - 2020 / 2020 - 2024.
  7. Faculty of Philosophy Promotion Committee: 2019 - 2022.  
  8. Founder and editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal Estetyka i Krytyka (2001-2018), transformed into an English-language version of The Polish Journal of Philosophy (2018).
  9. Doctoral School of the Humanities.
  10. Digital Humanities Commission.

 

Membership of scientific organisations

Lectures

Inaugural Lecture 01.10.2020
Jagiellonian University [Nauka na miłość. Słowo o Romanie Ingardenie].

Guest lectures
1.    (2023) Homo creator. About Duty to Create¸ December 12th, Kyoto University – Japan.
2.    (2023) Homo integralis. On the Contemporary Function of Art, December 8th, Kyoto City University of Art – Japan.
3.    (2022) On the Freedom of Creation: From the Perspective of Roman Ingarden's Philosophy and Contemporary Art [ロマン・インガルデン：人間と創造する義務], International Workshop, Kyoto City University of Art, Febr 13th, ["Roman Ingarden: Man and the Duty of Creation"].
4.    (2020) Roman Ingarden – The Polish Humanist of the 20th Century, 21 czerwca 2020, Instytut Kultury Polskiej, Tel Aviv, Izrael [on-line].
5.    (2020) Spuścizna Romana Ingardena w XXI wieku: Cyfrowe Archiwum Romana Ingardena oraz Centrum Badań Filozoficznych im. Romana Ingardena, 13 czerwca 2020, Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Kijowie, Ukraina [on-line].
6.    (2014) Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, Japan, (Semestr zimowy)  
7.    (2010) Academic Quality Council, Chicago

Awards

  • Jagiellonian University Rector's Award for Teaching Excellence, 2008
  • Jagiellonian University Rector's Award for scientific achievements, 2001

Grants

10 own and co-directed grants

Encyclopaedia entries

Authorship of approximately 40 entries to: Powszechna Encyklopedia Filozofii, Encyklopedia Filozofii Polskiej, Słownik pojęć filozoficznych Romana Ingardena, Wizerunki filozofów i humanistów polskich – wiek XX, Słownik filozofów XX wieku.

International conferences (selection)

1.    (2023) Art and Society, International Conference, December 9-10th, Kyoto City University of Art - Japan.
2.    (2022) From the Anthropocene to the Ecocene? The Imagination in Creating a Sustainable Future for Human and Nature, Eco-imagination Congress of Phenomenology, October 27-29th, University Milan - Italy.
3.    (2022) Changes of Censorship in Advanced ICT Society, from the Hint of Restriction of Mobile Games at Auschwitz and Atomic Bomb Dome, International Workshop, May 15th, Kyoto City University of Art [on-line].
4.    (2022) On the Freedom of Creation: From the Perspective of Roman Ingarden's Philosophy and Contemporary Art, International Workshop, Febr 13th, Kyoto City University of Art [on-line].
5.    (2021) Roman Ingarden and Our Times, An International Phenomenological Conference, April 12–15th, Jagiellonian University – Krakow.
6.    (2019) Zone Moda Conference 2019. Be cool! Aesthetic Imperatives and Social Practices, University of Bologna - Italy.
7.     (2019) 3rd International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Women who made history, The International Centre for Studies of Arts and Humanities (ICSAH), The Dante Alighieri Society Nicosia, University of Nicosia - Cypr.
8.    (2018) Roman Ingarden and His Times, An International Phenomenological Conference, 25–27 października 2018, Jagiellonian University – Krakow.
9.    (2018) Workshop: Perspectives of International Collaboration on European Scientific Archives, Jagiellonian University, September 22–27th, 2018.
10.    (2017) Phenomenology and Aesthetics. The 3rd Conference on Traditions and Perspectives of the Phenomenological Movement in Central and Eastern Europe, June 29, 2017 – July 1, 2017, University of Latvia, Riga.
11.    (2016) Logos and Justice – Communicating Life. Can Aristotle Bridge Arabic-Islamic-Scholastic Philosophies and Contemporary Phenomenology?, World Phenomenology Institute, World Congress in Philosophy, Athens, 9-15 July 2016 School of Philosophy, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
12.    (2015) Human/Non-Human/And Posthuman: Phenomenology Of The Object And The Human Positioning In The Cosmos, The World Phenomenology Institute, June 4 - 6, 2015 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
13.    (2014) New steps in Japanese studies / Part-II Modern Japanese Arts in Global Contexts, December 15th 2014, Kobe University – Japan.
14.    (2014) The 10th Convention of the International Association for Japan Studies (IAJS), December 13th 2014, Kyoto Women’s University.
15.    (2014) 5th International Conference On New Horizons In Education, INTE 2014, 25-27 June 2014, Paris – France.
16.    (2013) Aesthetics in Action, 19th Jubilee International Congress of Aesthetics, Krakow 21–27 July 2013.
17.    (2013) “YKPAÏHA I CBIT B KOHTEKCTI ГЛOБAЛЪHИX TPAHCФOPMAЦIЙ”, X Miжнapoднoї нaykoвo-пpaктичноï конфepeнціï, ЛЬВІВСЬКИЙ УНІВЕРСИТЕТ БІЗНЕСУ ТА ПРАВА, 16-(2013) 17. Тpaвня 2013 p. Львiв.
18.    (2012) Music and Genocide, International Interdisciplinary Conference, Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
19.    (2009) Towards a New Renaissance 3: Harmonizing Spirituality, Nature and Health, Humboldt Universität – Berlin.
20.    (2008) European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Jagiellonian University Krakow.
21.    (2007) Phenomenology: Reception and Transformation, 2-3 December, Polish-Israeli Philosophical Conference, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
22.    (2007) Towards a New Renaissance 2: World-Views, Spirituality and the Future, Pari (Siena) Italy.

Scientific publications (selection)

1.    Roman Ingarden’s Aesthetics and Ontology: Contemporary Readings, (eds) L. Sosnowski & N. Michna, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2023.
2.    Roman Ingarden and Our Times, D. Czakon, N.A. Michna, L. Sosnowski (eds.), Wyd. Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2021.
3.    Meetings. Roman Ingarden in Recollections, L. Sosnowski (ed.), Wyd. Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2020. Roman Ingarden. Portrait of a Teacher, p. 63-109.
4.    The fashion show as a festival of Gesamtkunstwerk, „ZoneModa Journal” Vol. 10, No. 1, 2020, p. 255-263.
5.    Leonardo da Vinci jako badacz natury, „Sztuka i Filozofia”, t. 55(2019), s. 167-179.  
6.    Roman Ingarden and His Times, D. Czakon, N.A. Michna, L. Sosnowski (eds.), Wyd. Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2020.
7.    Sokrates, czyli pochwała powolności, w: Oblicza świata w dyskursach kultury, J. Dębicki, A. Małecka (red.), Wydawnictwa AGH, Kraków 2019, s. 33-43.
8.    Logos, Justice, Pax Philosophica: Giovanni Pico and the Culture of Peace, “Dialogue and Universalism”, vol. XXVIII, No. 1/2018, p. 243-252.
9.    Beauty and ugliness: Franz Brentano and Polish schools of philosophy, “Paradigmi. Rivista di critica filosofica”, 3/2017, p. 87-103.
10.    The Holocaust – the Code of Death without the Alphabet of Life, in: Music and Genocide, W. Klimczyk, A. Swierzowska (eds.), Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2015, p. 141-151

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