Professional Career

  • 1965 – 1970 Studies in philology in the Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń
  • 1973 – 1976 Philosophical studies in the Catholic University of Lublin
  • 1983 PhD in Philosophy (Anglosaxon Analytical Aesthetics)
  • 1994 Habilitation in Philosophy (Art and problem of its autonomy)
  • 1996 Head of the Department of Philosophy of Art
  • 1999 Associate Professor

Areas of Competence

  • Philosophy of Art (Aesthetics)
  • Metaphilosophy
  • Social Theory
  • Contemporary Philosophy
  • Theory of Culture

Basic themes of researches

  • Classical, Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy of Art;
  • Modern tradition in Aesthetics: from Aesthetics to Antiaesthetics;
  • Culture and Civilization: connections and differences;
  • Philosophical idealism and its Social Theory: from Utopia to Socialism;
  • Philosophy and necessary conditions of the philosophical discourse;
  • Idealistic tradition: from Modernism to Postmodernism;
  • Philosophical grounds of the Humanities;
  • Theory of Knowledge

Monographs and Anthologies

  • Czy sztuka jest autonomiczna? W związku z tzw. Antysztuką (Is Art Autonomous? In connections with so could Anti-art) Lublin 1993
  • Spór o sztukę (Controversy over Art) Lublin 1996
  • Sztuka wobec natury (Art versus Nature) Warszawa 1997, Radom 2001 2nd edition
  • Służyć kulturze (Serving Culture) Lublin 1998
  • Co zagraża sztuce? (What posses a threat on Art?) Lublin 2000, Radom 2004 2nd edition
  • Trzy socjalizmy. Tradycja Łacińska wobec modernizmu i postmodernizmu (Three socialism. Latin tradition versus modernism and postmodernism) Lublin 2000
  • U podstaw życia społecznego. Personalizm czy socjalizm (The foundations of social life. Personalism or socialism) Radom 2001
  • Człowiek i sztuka (Man and Art) Lublin 2006
  • Człowiek i cywilizacja (Man and Civilization) Lublin 2009