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Joanna Hańderek

b. 1974

Polish philosopher

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Born 1974. Joanna Hańderek is a Polish philosopher and lecturer.

Joanna Hańderek (born 22 June 1974) is a Polish philosopher of culture, associate professor at the Jagiellonian University, opinion journalist, activist and politician.

Biography Academic work In 2002 she obtained a PhD in humanities at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, on the basis of the work Suffering and Time. An attempt to analyze the suffering-time relationship based on the views of Emmanuel Lévinas, supervised by Beata Szymańska. In 2012, she obtained habilitation in humanities. She is an associate professor at the Jagiellonian University.

She published two monographs and a number of articles in philosophical journals, including in the Kwartalnik Filozoficzny (Philosophical Quarterly). She specializes in contemporary philosophy, philosophy of culture, in particular in the issues of postcolonialism, globalization, multiculturalism and social exclusion.

Since 2013, she has been the co-organizer of the conference Culture of exclusion? (eight editions by 2020). She has been the mentor of two sections of the Scientific Society of Students of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University (section of philosophy of culture and section of the eco-ethics). She is a member of the Council of the Congress of Women Association (Kongres Kobiet), the Humanist Society (Towarzystwo Humanistyczne) and the Congress of Secularism (Kongres Świeckości),

Opinion journalism Together with Radosław Czarnecki, she is the co-author of the series of vlogs about religion, atheism and their cultural significance in rationalalista.tv.

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Polish philosopher

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Joanna Hańderek was born on 22 June 1974.

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Joanna Hańderek is a philosopher and lecturer.

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· Wikipedia: Joanna Hańderek

· Wikidata: Q101532020

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