Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński professor of Sociology

Sociology

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, is the founder and first head of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Polish Academy of Sciences

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 Institute of Political Studies, Rector of Collegium Civitas

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 in Warsaw. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna

Vienna

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, the University of Notre Dame

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, and Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin

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. He is a member of the Polish National Council for Civil Service and the National Council for European Integration.

He is also the author of a social fiction dystopia

Dystopia

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 trilogy, Apostezjon (Wir pamieci, Rozpad polowiczny, Mord zalozycielski), and was the winner of Janusz A. Zajdel Award

Janusz A. Zajdel Award

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 in 1988 for Rozpad polowiczny.