dr hab. Adam Lipszyc, prof. PAN, works in the Insitute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science. He teaches in Collegium Civitas and at the Franz Kafka University of Muri. He has published four books and co-edited four others, mostly focusing on traces of Jewish theology in the 20th century thought and literature. His most recent publications include a study of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of language and justice (Justice on the Tip of the Tongue, 2012) and a study of Paul Celan’s poetry (The Time of the Poem, 2015). He edited and co-translated into Polish two volumes of essays, one by Gershom Scholem and one by Walter Benjamin.