Adam J Chmielewski

Adam J Chmielewski is <a href=http://www.chmielewski.uni.wroc.pl>professor</a> of philosophy in the <a href=http://www.filozofia.uni.wroc.pl/>Institute of Philosophy, University of WrocÅ‚awâ†‘ </a>, P

Lysistrata: what do Polish women want?

The essence of their rebellion finds one of its best expressions in the juicy and powerful Polish expletive “Wypierdalać!” Used privately, it means, “Get the fuck out of here.”

By Adam J Chmielewski

/ 3 Nov 2020

Mental confinement

Is it not true that this now-suspended normality was experienced by most of us as burdensome, painful, unbearable, and unjust?

By Adam J Chmielewski

/ 13 Apr 2020

Perception and politics – the case of Poland: coping with political apparitions

Is there a gap between conservative neoliberalism and conservative nationalism, within which emancipatory ideas could come to life again, albeit embraced in a perverse dialectics?

By Adam J Chmielewski

/ 1 Oct 2019

Perception and politics – the case of Poland: coping with political apparitions

Unsympathetic people: the overwhelming success of Poland's exclusionary agenda

Three elements seem to have played a decisive role in this: voluntary servitude, the Polish brand of inferiority complex, and a deep-seated Polish anti-Semitism and more general exclusivism.

By Adam J Chmielewski

/ 23 Apr 2018

The guilt, dignity and pedagogy of shamelessness

For centuries, Europe’s Christians have shut Jews behind ghetto walls. Now, Polish Christians intend to shut the voice of Jewish suffering into a ghetto of silence behind a legal wall.

By Adam J Chmielewski

/ 13 Feb 2018