Alicja Gescinska

Alicja Gescinska is an award-winning Polish-Belgian philosopher and novelist, and a leading public intellectual in Belgium and the Netherlands. She has held academic positions at various institutions, including Ghent University, Princeton University and Amherst College, and is currently the course director of the Philosophy programme at Buckingham University. Her book De verovering van de vrijheid (The Conquest of Liberty) was awarded the Mens.nu Prize for the best non-fiction book of 2011.

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