Performers
Tadeusz Sławek
A philologist, author of prose and poetry, translator, professor of the human sciences. His special fields are literary theory as well as the history of British and American literatures. An eminent intellectual, ranking among the elite of Polish humanist authors, he has published texts in such periodicals as ‘Brulion’, ‘Odra’, ‘Res Publica Nowa’, and ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’, as well as regularly contributing to ‘Tygodnik Powszechny’.
He studied Polish and then English philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. A faculty member of the University of Silesia in Katowice since 1971, he obtained his doctorate there in 1978, followed by a postdoctoral degree (doctor habilitatus) from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1986), and the state title of professor in 1992. He was the rector of the University of Silesia in 1996–2002 as well as a member of the PAS Committee on Literary Studies. As a visiting professor, he has lectured at wellknown universities in Europe and America. He also did academic work abroad as a British Council and Fulbright Fellow.
His Polish-language publications include: Man, World, and Friendship in the Works of William Blake (2001), Antigone in the Corporate World. Reflections on the University and the Present Time (2002), The Sailing Ship, or Against Familiarity (2006), Henry David Thoreau. Grasping the Community of the World (2009), De-Parting (2015), Never without the Rest. On the Urgency of Incompleteness (2018), On the Animal Track: Reaching Ourselves (2020), and The Unhinged Mind. Essays on Jerzy Żuławski’s Lunar Trilogy (2020). As a music performer and text author, Sławek has collaborated for many years with double bassist Bogdan Mizerski. His achievements have been recognised with, among others, the Golden Cross of Merit, the Medal of the National Education Commission, Wojciech Korfanty Award, Lux ex Silesia, and the Kazimierz Wyka Award.
He studied Polish and then English philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. A faculty member of the University of Silesia in Katowice since 1971, he obtained his doctorate there in 1978, followed by a postdoctoral degree (doctor habilitatus) from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1986), and the state title of professor in 1992. He was the rector of the University of Silesia in 1996–2002 as well as a member of the PAS Committee on Literary Studies. As a visiting professor, he has lectured at wellknown universities in Europe and America. He also did academic work abroad as a British Council and Fulbright Fellow.
His Polish-language publications include: Man, World, and Friendship in the Works of William Blake (2001), Antigone in the Corporate World. Reflections on the University and the Present Time (2002), The Sailing Ship, or Against Familiarity (2006), Henry David Thoreau. Grasping the Community of the World (2009), De-Parting (2015), Never without the Rest. On the Urgency of Incompleteness (2018), On the Animal Track: Reaching Ourselves (2020), and The Unhinged Mind. Essays on Jerzy Żuławski’s Lunar Trilogy (2020). As a music performer and text author, Sławek has collaborated for many years with double bassist Bogdan Mizerski. His achievements have been recognised with, among others, the Golden Cross of Merit, the Medal of the National Education Commission, Wojciech Korfanty Award, Lux ex Silesia, and the Kazimierz Wyka Award.
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