Adam Lipszyc

Philosopher, essayist, translator (of works including those of Adorno, Arendt, Bloom, Scholem, and Wittgenstein) His work is at the boundaries of philosophy, psychoanalysis, Jewish theology, and literary theory (with a special focus on the ideas of Walter Benjamin). He was the recipient of a scholarship from the Stafan Batory Foundation, and served an internship at Oxford University (1997) and at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (2002). Author of numerous articles published in the pages of “Przegląd Filozoficzny”, “Principia”, “Etyka”, “Nowe Książki”, “Znak” and “Literatura na Świecie”. He co-translated and assembled a collection of essays and conversations by Gershom Scholem, published in Poland as “Żydzi i Niemcy” (Germans and Jews, 2006), for which he was conferred the Allianz Kulturstiftung Foundation award for translators from Central-Eastern Europe. Author of the books “Ślad judaizmu w filozofii XX wieku” (Traces of Judaism in the Philosophy of the Twentieth Century) – a collection dedicated to such figures as Derrida, Adorno, Lévinas, Buber, Benjamin, Scholem, Bloch, Cohen, and Rosenzweig; Lipszyc explores the phenomena of ‘Jewish philosophy’ and its influence on the European humanities. In 2005 his book “Międzyludzie. Koncepcja podmiotowości w pismach Harolda Blooma”. (Interpersonality. The Concept of Subjectivity in the Writings of Harold Bloom) was published. The main character is an American literary critic – but the book is not a lecture on his theory of ‘fear of influence’, but is rather an attempt to draw the concept of man hidden behind this theory, expanding it into a fully-formed philosophical standpoint.

At the Second Joseph Conrad International Literature Festival he will take part in the panel discussion dedicated to the author of “Fugue of Death”, on Friday 5 November at 8:30 p.m. at the National Museum.