Postcard from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 21.04.1938

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 21.04.1938

Related places Lviv

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type postcard

Subject matter academic issues, personal issues

Field philosophy

Tags #? Skłoniewska, #criticism of Metallman, #Daniela Gromska, #depression, #dissertation, #dissertation about the object and the act, #idealism, #Joachim Metallmann, #lecture, #lecturing activity, #Lviv, #manuscript, #personal experiences, #personal issues, #Philosophical Movement, #philosophical polemics, #philosophicsl works, #polemics, #Roman Ingarden, #Rudolf Carnap, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #summary, #typescript, #Witkacy, #work on Carnap

21.IV 1938
Honoured and Dear Professor:
Thank you for sending me back the MSN [Manuscripts] and I apologize for the inconvenience. But apart from the dissertation about idealism, wasn’t there a dissertation about the object and the act, which I have to remake completely. If so, kindly resend it. I cannot get myself to write the letter because I am in a state of complete depression due to quite disastrous personal experiences. I am reading Carnap and I am preparing for this fight, but I do not know what will happen to me at all. For now, my mental situation is pretty hopeless. I met Mrs. Skłoniewska here and I had an important conversation with her. Of course, at the request of Mrs. Gromska, I have given up the idea of polemics with Metallmann in the “Ruch” journal. I am very pleased (if I can be at all) that the summary of M[etallmann’s] reading and critique will be published . I apologize for the insignificance of this card, but my condition is heavy. When I shave in the morning, I have the impression that I am shaving my own corpse ready for a coffin.

ERFB FG 3W*
You probably know these symbols.
*ERFB [I enclose words of respect and friendship for you both] FG [family greetings] 3W [Your faithful Witkacy]

Postcard
Dr. Roman Ingarden
Professor U. J.K.
Lviv
Zacharjewicz Street 7, apt. 8