Henryk Skolimowski

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Henryk Skolimowski

Henryk Skolimowski (born 1930 in Warsaw) is a Polish philosopher. He completed technical studies, musicology and philosophy in Warsaw. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Oxford University.[1]

The student of Tadeusz Kotarbiński and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, he specialized in logic and philosophy of language. Skolimowski earned a doctorate at the University of Oxford, where he also taught before he began his professorships at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and then at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he was for many years a professor of philosophy, and now holds the position of professor emeritus. Today he is considered to be the leading thinker in the field of eco-philosophy.

Skolimowski's work is targeted at overcoming human angst and disconnection caused in part by the overwhelming preponderance of modern technology, which had its seeds in the Industrial Revolution. Our accelerating dependence on technology at the expense of a right relationship with Nature and the planet is a prime concern within Skolimowski's work, as is the increasing inability of organized patriarchal religions to provide a meaningful spiritual platform from which modern human beings may appropriately evolve.

During decades of travel and involvement with leading thinkers across the globe, Skolimowski has become familiar a great variety of cultures, and has included winning precepts from them into his works. He is the author of 40 books and hundreds of scientific and academic papers. He is also a poet. He writes in English. In the years 1992-1997 Skolimowski held the position of Chair of Eco-Philosophy at Technical University of Lodz, the first such position of its kind in the world.

Degrees and Scientific Titles:

Academic experience:

  • University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom - scholar 1959-60, 1962–64, 1968–69
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom - exhibitioner 1969-70
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA - Assistant professor, associate professor 1964-70
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA - Professor 1971-1993
  • Technical University of Lodz, Department of Environmental Philosophy, Lodz, Poland - Professor, Head of Department 1992-97

He was a member of scientific organizations such as:

  • Teilhard Society in London - Vice President 1980-90
  • International Union for the Conservation of Nature 1981/86
  • Committee "Man and Environment" PAN

Other information:

  • creator of a new department of philosophy - eco-philosophy
  • Founder of the Eco-Philosophy Center based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
  • member of the President of the Council for Environmental RP 1994-97

Publications: author of 40 books and over 450 articles in scientific journals (published in 20 languages)

Awards and distinctions:

  • Gold Medal of Merit 1999
  • Medal of the City of Wroclaw 1997 (for activities in the field of environmental protection in Poland)

Hobbies:

  • Hiking
  • Travel

In our country appeared Skolimowski the following items:

  1. . Hope the mother of the wise, Library Era of Ecological Environmental Philosophy TP 1993
  2. . Habitat holy man, the universality of the Center of the University of Warsaw, Poland Living Federation, Warsaw 1999
  3. . Green Eye of space around the Ekofilozofii In an interview, and essays, Publisher Atla2, Wroclaw 2003
  4. . Technique and Purpose, Wydawnictwo Warsaw ETHOS 1995
  5. . Living Philosophy as a Tree of Life Ekofilozofia, Wydawnictwo Warsaw Empty Cloud 1993
  6. . Visions of the new millennium, Wydawnictwo EJB Krakow 1999
  7. . Meditation on the real value of man who seeks the meaning of life, Astrum Wroclaw University of Technology Publishing House, Wroclaw 1991
  8. . Saving the Earth - Dawn ecological philosophy, Warsaw 1991
  9. . Essays on Ecology, Warsaw 1992

Most of its author delivered an item in English. As you can see out of a total of over forty items shown in our country is less than twenty five percent. This situation was perhaps because, as suggested by the poet Marianne Stork in chapter titled "Towards ocaleniu" quoted in the seventh point "meditation," that the ideas of freedom and love of beauty presented by H. Skolimowski be dangerous to the previous system, and as such they could not see The light blocked by the censors.

Henryk Skolimowski Archive is located in the Immigration Archives in the University Library in Torun.

Notes

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Works

  • The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe (Arkana)
  • A Sacred Place to Dwell: Living With Reverence upon the Earth Jun 2002
  • Dharma, Ecology and Wisdom in the Third Millennium 1999
  • Ecoyoga: Practice & Meditations for Walking in Beauty on the Earth Jun 1994
  • Living Philosophy: Eco-Philosophy as a Tree of Life (Arkana) Aug 4, 1992
  • Dancing Shiva in the ecological age 1991
  • Eco-theology: Toward a religion for our times (Eco-philosophy publication) 1985
  • Theatre of the Mind (Quest Books) Oct 25, 1984
  • Eco-Philosophy: Designing New Tactics for Living (Ideas in progress) Jun 1981
  • Polish Analytical Philosophy. A Survey and a Comparison with British Analytical Philosophy
  • In Defence of Sustainable Development 1995, Environmental Values, 4, 69-70

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