Postcard from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 24.05.1935

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 24.05.1935

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type postcard

Subject matter academic issues, personal issues

Field philosophy

Tags #Alfred North Whitehead, #Das literarische Kunstwerk, #dedyication, #discussion, #Ernst Mach, #Hans Cornelius, #Joachim Metallmann, #Kazimierz Twardowski, #Krahelscys, #megalomania, #psychologism, #Roman Ingarden, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Witkacy

24.V 1935
Honoured and Dear Professor:
I would never like to be a nag, although the intellectual exchange with you is a great joy and
honour for me. In your letter I feel a certain “coldness” – I fear that my way of expressing
myself might have been taken for megalomania, from which I am (still) quite far away. You haven’t
answered my question about Twardowski – if it is possible to send him a dedication in the letter
and what his address is pos[sibly]. Besides, I wonder if you know Cornelius (because everyone
usually enters into polemics with Mach, who has presented a basic and undeveloped form of
psychologism). And besides, do you know Whitehead, with whom I have been aux prises since 1933. And
recently, this state has become very acute. I am reading now, next to L.K., Metallmann’s piece on
Whitehead, and this encourages me to tackle this titan on a false path. My fate in June (VII) is
still not yet decided. I am asking you that there should be no compulsion in your relations with
me.
I enclose words of deep respect, and thank you once again

Katowice, Zamkowa street 17, at the
Krahelscys’

Postcard

Dr. Roman Ingarden
Prof. of Jan Kazimierz University
Zacharjewicza Street 7, apt. 8 Lviv