Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Leszek Kołakowski across 6 places, from 1953 to 2009.
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Leszek Kołakowski (23 October 1927 – 17 July 2009) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Leszek Kołakowski was documented, and when
1953year
University of Łódźattested“After the war, he studied philosophy at the University of Łódź followed by the University of Warsaw, where he completed a doctorate in 1953 under the supervision of Adam Schaff, with a treatise on Spinoza from a Marxist viewpoint.”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
1969year
McGill Universityattested“He became a visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal and in 1969 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where his experience of the student protests prompted him to abandon the New…”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
1969year
University of California, Berkeleyattested“He became a visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal and in 1969 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where his experience of the student protests prompted him to abandon the New…”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
1969year
Montrealattested“He became a visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal and in 1969 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where his experience of the student protests prompted him to abandon the New…”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
17 July 2009exact date
Oxfordattested“His writings, lectures and TV appearances encouraged people to ask questions, even the most banal ones, and he highlighted the archetypal role of the jester in philosophy – someone who is unafraid "to challenge even our strongest assumpt…”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
17 July 2009exact date
John Radcliffe Hospitalattested“His writings, lectures and TV appearances encouraged people to ask questions, even the most banal ones, and he highlighted the archetypal role of the jester in philosophy – someone who is unafraid "to challenge even our strongest assumpt…”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
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1950year
Moscowmentioned“His intellectual promise earned him a trip to Moscow in 1950.”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
1968year
Warsawmentioned“In the course of the 1968 Polish political crisis, he lost his job at Warsaw University and was prevented from obtaining any other academic post.”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
1968year
Warsaw Universitymentioned“In the course of the 1968 Polish political crisis, he lost his job at Warsaw University and was prevented from obtaining any other academic post.”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
1974 to 1994period
Oxfordmentioned“Thereafter he remained mostly in Oxford, but spent part of 1974 at Yale University, and from 1981 to 1994, was a part-time professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
1974 to 1994period
Yale Universitymentioned“Thereafter he remained mostly in Oxford, but spent part of 1974 at Yale University, and from 1981 to 1994, was a part-time professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
1974 to 1994period
University of Chicagomentioned“Thereafter he remained mostly in Oxford, but spent part of 1974 at Yale University, and from 1981 to 1994, was a part-time professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
1980year
Second Polish Republicmentioned“What in the twentieth century perhaps comes closest to the working class revolution were the events in Poland of 1980–81: the revolutionary movement of industrial workers (very strongly supported by the intelligentsia) against the exploi…”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
1989year
Eastern Europementioned“These in turn led to the formation of Solidarity and eventually to the collapse of Communist rule in Eastern Europe in 1989.”source: Wikipedia: Leszek Kołakowski
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