Taras Voznyak

Taras Wozniak ( Ukr Тарас Степанович Возняк ) ( born May 11, 1957 in the village Swarytschiw Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ) is a Ukrainian cultural theorist, political scientist, founder and editor of the independent quarterly journal " Ji ".

Taras Wozniak was born after the return of his father from the forced labor camp Magadan, where he spent the years 1945 to 1956. His family moved to in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to the little town Broschniw - Osada. He studied from 1974 to 1979 at the Technical University in Lviv, 1980-1984 he served in the Soviet Army as an officer. During this time he worked on the translations of philosophical writings of Edmund Husserl, Roman Ingarden, Gabriel Marcel, Martin Heidegger, Hans -Georg Gadamer and Max Scheler. After demobilization in 1984, he worked as a programmer in the Lviv factory of milling equipment. Thanks to the political thaw initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev of " glasnost " Wozniak was an activist for democracy and participated in the organization of the first strikes in the Ukraine in Lviv factory of milling equipment part. Wozniak established contacts with the group of intellectuals who worked in the eighties in Lviv. He organized the publication of illegal cultural-scientific writings. He also edited the works of Bruno Schulz.

1987 Wozniak began to prepare along with Nicholas Jakowina the publication of an independent cultural studies journal. The name " Ji ", the Ukrainian translator Grigory Kotschur and the linguist Yuri Shevelyov have suggested. The first issue was published in 1989 under the direction of Taras Wozniak, who heads the magazine now. The first five books were reproduced in Vilnius, thanks to the support from the Sąjūdis party. The magazine was legalized only in 1995. " Ji " is currently in the print and online version. She's human rights, multiculturalism, globalization, etc. dedicated. She is co-financed by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The Internet version is published in Ukrainian, English, German and French. It deals also with the artists and writers who played an important role in Galicia, as the writer Bruno Schulz, sculptor and painter Johann Georg Pinzel Zygmunt Haupt.