Krzysztof Michalski is the rector of the Institut für die Wissenschaftern vom Menschen (Institute for Human Sciences) in Vienna and a professor of philosophy at the University of Warsaw, where he holds the Erasmus chair. He also has been a professor of philosophy at Boston University (BU) for the past seventeen years. His research interests include phenomenology, hermeneutics, and continental philosophy. A graduate of the University of Warsaw, he took his Ph.D. in philosophy there in 1974 and then joined the philosophy faculty as an assistant professor. Dr. Michalski was promoted to associate professor in 1978 and named to his present full professorship in 1994. He was appointed rector of the Institut für die Wissenschaftern vom Menschen in 1983. He has held an Alexander Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Cologne, a Thyssen Fellowship at the University of Heidelberg, and been a Fellow Commoner of Churchill College, Cambridge, as well as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna and at BU. A founding member of the Polish Society for the Advancement of Science, he served as chair of the European Commission’s Reflection Group on the Spiritual and Cultural Dimensions of Europe, of the board of directors for the new Institute for Human Sciences at BU, and of the supervisory board of the Instytut Spraw Publicznych (Institute for Public Affairs) in Warsaw. He is a member of the international advisory council of the Duitsland Institut at the University of Amsterdam, the governing council of the Stefan Batory Foundation, and the academic board of the Mitteleuropa-institut Muerz in Styria. His honors include Poland’s Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit, France’s Officer’s Cross of L’Ordre National du Mérité, and the Theodor-Heusss-Prize for his role in deepening political and cultural dialogue between East and West. Dr. Michalski is the editor of the Transit Europäische Revue. In addition to publishing more than seventy papers in academic journals and in volumes of collected works, he edited and translated into Polish a selection of Heidegger’s essays, Budowac, Mieszkac, Myslec (Building, Dwelling, Thinking, 1977), which was re-published as Heidegger i Filozofia Wspólczesna (Heidegger and Contemporary Thought) in 1998, edited a volume of the late Hans-Georg Gadamer’s works, Rozum, Slowo, Dzieje (Reason, Word, Event, 1979 and 2000), and co-edited (with Krzysztof Maurin and Enno Rudolph) a volume of essays in German, Logik und Zeit (Logic and Time, 1981), and (with Nina zu Fürstenberg) Europa Laica e Puzzle Religioso (2005). His book Logika I Czas: Próba Analizy Husserlowskiej Teorii Sensu (1988 and, in English translation, Logic and Time: An Essay on Husserl’s Theory of Meaning, 1996), is an analysis of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological theory. Dr. Michalski’s most recent works to appear in English are two edited volumes on the conditions of European solidarity, What Holds Europe Together? and Religion in the New Europe, both published last year by the Central European University Press. His newest book, P?omie? Wieczno?ci: Eseje o Myslach Fryderyka Nietzschego, was published in Polish and in German (Die Flamme der Ewigkeit Essays über das Denken Nietzsches) by Znak in 2007.