New Academic Semi-annual Journal Wojtyła Studies

(For professors, students, teachers, persons having basic knowledge of psychology and history of philosophy.)

Karol Wojtyla, a native of Poland, lived most of his life in ominous, collectivistic, and dictatorial societies, first under Nazism and later under Communism. His lived experience under these two systems guided him to a deeper reflection on the relationship of the human person and community, society, and the state. For his studies, Wojtyła engaged the disciplines of philosophical anthropology and phenomenology, which is marked by his principal works, Love and Responsibility and Person and Act, as well as numerous articles in academic journals, where themes such as anthropology, personalism, participation and alienation, individualism, totalitarianism, and communio personarum are developed.

Wojtyła Studies was created as a scholarly forum to investigate Wojtyla’s ideas, their influence in academia and culture, their various interpretations, as well as their validity for contemporary problems arising in philosophy, theology, and culture. Some of his early works are less known or unknown at all and are now the subject of this critical edition, which is carried out at The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland. This periodical is published in English as part of a collaborative project with The St. John Paul II Institute at The University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.

As shown above, Vol. 1, No.1, is the inaugural issue of Wojtyła Studies. This issue and future issues are always open access and may be downloaded at this link.