Allan Janik

Prof. Dr. Allan Janik (b. 1941, Chicopee. MA) has degrees from Villanova University and Brandeis University, and taught philosophy at Innsbruck University until 2006, remaining a research fellow of the Brenner Archives there until 2013. Janik is adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna. Visiting professorships include those at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology; UNAM, Mexico City; Innsbruck; Northwestern; Stockholm School of Economics; Swedish Center for Working Life;...See more

Prof. Dr. Allan Janik (b. 1941, Chicopee. MA) has degrees from Villanova University and Brandeis University, and taught philosophy at Innsbruck University until 2006, remaining a research fellow of the Brenner Archives there until 2013. Janik is adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna. Visiting professorships include those at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology; UNAM, Mexico City; Innsbruck; Northwestern; Stockholm School of Economics; Swedish Center for Working Life; University of Paris; and at Graz and Bergen. His books in English include Assembling Reminders: Studies in the Genesis of Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy ; Theater and Knowledge ; The Use and Abuse of Metaphor ; Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy ; and Wittgenstein's Vienna , also including a guide to the Austrian capital Wittgenstein in Vienna (with Hans Veigl). See less