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Place of Birth: Poland
About Leszek Nowak
- Leszek Nowak (Wieckowice, Tarnów County, 7 January 1943 – Poznan, 20 October 2009) was a Polish philosopher and lawyer. In 1965, he graduated in law at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, having written a thesis under the direction of Sigmund Ziembinski.
- In 1966 he completed his master's degree in philosophy at the University of Warsaw under the direction of Janina Kotarbinska.
- In 1967 he obtained a doctorate in law, writing on the interpretation of the law, the rule of law and semiotic functions of language, under Ziembinski.
- He was named assistant professor in 1970 and wrote on the methodological foundations of Karl Marx .
- In 1976 he was an associate professor of philosophy, the youngest such professor in Poland, and in 1990 he became a regular professor.
- In 1994, he became a member of the Academy of Sciences. In 1965-1970 he worked in the Law Department of Applied Logic UAM, and between 1970 and 1985 in the Institute of Philosophy University.
- In 1985, he was fired from his job for publishing underground literature.
- In 1989, he was restored to his previous academic position. He worked as a visiting professor at the universities of Berlin, Canberra (Australian National University), Catania and Frankfurt.
- He was a Fellow of the Institutes for Advanced Study in Wassenaar and Berlin.
- In 1975, he founded an international series of bookish Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities (published by Rodopi, Amsterdam / New York), where he was editor-in-chief until 2006. In 1976 he founded a series of Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Humanities (PWN, now publishing Profit & S-ka Poznan).
- In the years 1976-1984 he was the editor in chief and co-editor since 1989. In 2000, he supervised 15 doctoral dissertations.
- Among those, 8 people received their habilitation, 4 received the title of professor, and two ordinary professor, and one was chosen a corresponding member of Academy of Sciences. In his socio-political outlook, he strongly approached anarchism.
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