Agata Bielik-Robson

She was born in 1966. She graduated in philosophy from the University of Warsaw (1989), obtained her doctorate at IFIS PAN (1995). She spent a few years in Great Britain, among others, Oxford and London. Currently, she's working at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Science, as well as at the Centre of American Studies of the University of Warsaw. She has published a few dozen articles in Polish and English, as well as five books: “On the other shore of nihilism” (Warsaw, 1997), “A different modernity” (Krakow, 2000), “Spirit of areas: romantic and philosophical revision" (Krakow, 2004), "Romanticism, an unfinished project. Essays” (Krakow, 2008) and “At the desert. Cryptic theology of late modernity” (Krakow, 2008). In the year 2010, her book dedicated to Harold Bloom’s philosophy will be published by Northwestern University: “The Saving Lie. Harold Bloom and Deconstruction”. She works in modern philosophy of the object, theory of literature and philosophy of religion, particularly including Judaism. Currently he is working on a project dedicated to post-secular thoughts under the working name “Religion at the gates”.