Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz

Wlodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz
Coat of arms	Korab
Noble family	Karpowicz h. Korab
Father	Zbigniew Karpowicz h. Korab
Mother	Danuta Miller h. Pomian
Born	24 October 1953 Gliwice, Poland

Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz, born in 1953 in Gliwice, Poland, is a Polish philosopher and political thinker.

Biography

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Wlodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz

W. J. Korab-Karpowicz was born in Gliwice, Poland in 1953. He comes from a noble Polish family. Korab, included in his family name, refers to the Korab coat of arms. In his early youth he lived in Gdańsk and then in Sopot, where he completed high school. He studied Engineering at the Gdańsk University of Technology, where, in 1977, he completed a Master's degree in Electronic Engineering. He then studied Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin, where, during the Solidarity revolution of 1980-1981, he became Vice-President of the Independent Students' Union (NZS). Escaping the imposition of martial law in Poland, with a scholarship from the Leadership Development Office of the Presbyterian Church (USA), he continued his studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., 1983-1984, the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., 1984-1987, and at the University of Oxford, 1988-1991. In 1999 he received a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, for a thesis titled "The Presocratic Thinkers in the Thought of Martin Heidegger".

Career

In 1991 he returned to Poland and was elected Deputy Mayor of Gdańsk, 1991-1992. He founded and directed the Sopot School of Polish in 1990, the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Management in 1991, the European Foundation for the Preservation of Monuments in 1993, and the College of International Affairs in 1995. He served as a diplomat with the rank of First Secretary at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Norway from 1998-2000, and acted as an ethics expert for the European Commission from 2005-2006.

Academic career

Korab-Karpowicz has taught at Bilkent University " and Meliksah University in Turkey, Kyung Hee University in South Korea, the Anglo-American University of Prague in the Czech Republic, the Lebanese American University and the Hariri Canadian University in Lebanon; and, more recently, at Sun Yat-sen University in China, Texas State University in the United States, and the Lazarski University in Poland. In 2014 he received his Habilitation in Philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He specializes in Political Philosophy and has written four books in English and Polish. He is the author of On the History of Political Philosophy, 2012 and Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus, 2015. His articles have been published by The Review of Metaphysics, The Monist, Philosophy Today, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Modern Age and many other journals. In his publications he usually uses the name: W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz. He writes for Polish and other newspapers, including Rzeczpospolita, Nasz Dziennik, Tygodnik Solidarność, China Daily and Today's Zaman.

W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz is currently a Professor at Zayed University, Dubai.

External links

• Web page at Texas State University
• Marquis Who's Who in the World
• Amazon: On the History of Political Philosophy
• Confederation of Polish Nobility -- Krakow Branch
• Publication information by Scholar
• Publications and bio at Academia.edu
• An article and a short bio in Rzeczpospolita