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Krzysztof Michalski was born in Warsaw. He studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw, where he received his Ph.D. in 1974 with a thesis on Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy. In 1977, he spent one year in Germany as a Humboldt Fellow, from 1978 onwards he taught philosophy at the University of Warsaw. In 1981/82 he was a Thyssen Fellow at the Heidelberg University and in 1982/1983 a Fellow Commoner of Churchill College at Cambridge. In 1986, he habilitated in philosophy at the University of Warsaw with a study on Logic and Time. From 1987, Michalski taught philosophy at Boston University, from 1994 also at the University of Warsaw. Since 1990, he co-chaired seminars at IWM's annual Cortona Summer School on Philosophy and Politics.

In 1982, he founded the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, of which he was the rector until his death.

Ahead of the Eastern enlargement of the EU, Michalski advised the European Commission on several occasions, most notably as chairman of the Reflection Group The Spiritual and Cultural Dimension of Europe (2002–04). He was also chairman of the Institute for Public Affairs in Warsaw, and president of the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS).

He was editor of the bi-annual journal Transit: Europäische Revue published with Verlag Neue Kritik, Frankfurt am Main, and the series Castelgandolfo-Gespräche (1985-1998) published with Klett-Cotta in Stuttgart.

Among his numerous awards and honours, he received the 39 th Theodor-Heuss-Prize and was decorated with the Officer´s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland as well as the Officer’s Cross of the Ordre National du Mérite of the Republic of France.

On February 11, Krzysztof Michalski died in Vienna.

Selected Publications

Zrozumieć przemijanie (Understanding Time), Warsaw: Kronos 2011

Płomień Wieczności. Eseje o myslach Fryderyka Nietzschego, Cracow: Znak 2007
English edition: The Flame of Eternity: An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Thought, Princeton University Press 2012
Russian edition: Пламeнь вечности. Девять эссе о мысли Фридриха Ницше. Moscow University Press 2012

Conditions of European Solidarity (ed.), Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2006
Vol. I: What Holds Europe Together?
Vol. II: Religion in the New Europe

Woran glaubt Europa? Religion und politische Kultur im neuen Europa (ed.), Vienna: Passagen Verlag 2007

Europa laica e puzzle religioso (with Nina zu Fürstenberg), Venice: Marsilio Editiori 2005