Maria Szyszkowska


Maria Szyszkowska is a Polish academic, writer and former Senator. Szyszkowska was a member of the Alliance of the Democratic Left and chaired that Party's Ethics Committee. She is currently a leader of a socialist party Reason of the Polish Left. She is born in old Polsih noble family belonging to Clan Ostoja
Szyszkowska graduated in law at the Warsaw University in 1961 and graduated in Christian Philosophy at the Catholic Theological Academy the following year. She pursued an academic career and under the Communist regime was subject to government restrictions in the 1970s for pursuing studies in fields which were banned. She became a professor at Warsaw University in 1993.
Between 1993 and 1997 she served as a judge on the State Tribunal.
As a Senator Szyszkowska introduced legislation to recognise civil unions for same-sex couples. She has received awards recognising her work promoting tolerance and social acceptance. She has also been recognised for her work in promoting the rights of gay and lesbian people.
In May 2005 Szyszkowska expressed her intention to run as an independent candidate in the 2005 Presidential Election. She was endorsed by the APP RACJA party however ran as a candidate for the Sejm in the 2005 Parliamentary election on the Polish Labour Party electoral committee list. The list comprised candidates from other parties including the Anticlerical Progress Party REASON, Communist Party of Poland, Polish Ecological Party – Greens and Polish Socialist Party. The grouping obtained 0.77% of the vote and was unsuccessful in electing a member to Parliament.

Publications

1970 – Neokantyzm. Filozofia społeczna wraz z filozofią prawa natury o zmiennej treści
1972 – Dociekania nad prawem natury czyli o potrzebach człowieka
1972 – U źródeł współczesnej filozofii prawa i filozofii człowieka
1979 – Człowiek wobec siebie i wobec innego
1982 – Teorie prawa natury w XXI wieku w Polsce
1985 – Twórcze niepokoje codzienności
1987 – Mój dziennik
1988 – Filozofia prawa i filozofia człowieka
1993 – Filozofia Prawa. Filozofia polityki. Filozofia twórczości
1993 – Europejska filozofia prawa
1992 – Zagubieni w codzienności
1994 – Spotkania w salonie
1994 – Stwarzanie siebie
1995 – Europejska filozofia prawa
1996 – Zagubieni w codzienności
1996 – Zarys filozofii prawa
1997 – W poszukiwaniu sensu życia
1997 – Filozofia w Europie
1997 – Całe życie w opozycji. Rozmowy z Marią Szyszkowską
1998 – Drogowskazy
1999 – Twórcze niepokoje codzienności
1999 – Filozoficzne interpretacje prawa
2000 – Filozofia w Europie
2001 – Rozmowy z Marią Szyszkowską 1997–2001
2001 – Granice zwierzeń
2001 – Zagubieni w codzienności
2002 – Za horyzontem
2004 – Lewicowość w XXI wieku
2005 – Zamyślenia
2005 – Filozofia Kanta w XXI wieku
2008 – Teoria i filozofia prawa
2009 – Odcienie codzienności
2009 – Dzieje filozofii
2010 – Każdy bywa pacjentem – zarys filozofii farmacji
2010 – Etyka
2010 – Filozofia codzienności w rzeczywistości neoliberalnej
2011 – Na każdy temat z Marią Szyszkowską... rozmawia Stanley Devine