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Andrzej Szahaj is a Professor of Philosophy, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He was a visiting scholar at universities in Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, St. Andrews, Charlottesville, Berkeley, and Stanford, as well as at Bellagio Rockefeller Center. He published many books and articles on modern philosophy, among others on the Frankfurt School, the neopragmatism of Richard Rorty, the debate between liberals and communitarians, multiculturalism, theories of interpretation and postmodernism, and philosophy of culture.