Agata Bielik-Robson was born in 1966 and received her PhD in philosophy in 1995. She worked at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently she has been appointed a Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Nottingham. She has published articles in Polish, English and German on philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis, romantic subjectivity, and the philosophy of religion (especially Judaism and its crossings with modern philosophical thought). Her publications include books: The Saving Lie. Harold Bloom and Deconstruction (in English, Northwestern University Press, May 2011), In the Wilderness. Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity (Cracow 2008), Romanticism. An Unfinished Project (Cracow 2008), The Spirit of the Surface. Romantic Revision and Philosophy (Cracow 2004) Another Modernity (Cracow 2000) and On the Other Side of Nihilism (Warsaw 1997).