Letter from Anna Teresa Tymieniecka written 18.08.1965

Author Anna Teresa Tymieniecka

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Archive of Science PAN in Cracow

Date of creation 18.08.1965

Related places Freiburg

Reference code in archive K_III-26_D_76

Resource type letter

Subject matter academic issues, personal issues, publication issues, translations

Field philosophy

Tags #2nd volume, #Alfred North Whitehead, #Anna Teresa Tymieniecka, #Controversy over the existence of the world, #cosmological essay, #countryside stay, #Forbes, #Freiburg, #Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, #Henri Bergson, #lecture, #material ontology, #modern science, #moving, #Netherlands, #on creativity, #painting, #Roman Ingarden, #Sketches in aesthetics, #Switzerland, #translation, #West Hartford

Tymieniecka v 7/18/1965

West Hartford
Vermont

Dearest Professor,

v I haven’t heard anything from you for so long. And it will be precisely a year since we spent such nice time with you in Krakow!

We are here in the countryside, on a farm in a forest, far from the village, by a river. Pure bliss. We take hikes and horseback trips all the time. The children are in great shape. They are just breaking in a new horse the two of us are having a hard time with. And I am painting a little and mainly preparing my own cosmological essay for printing – because I finally have a contract in the Netherlands. I am just finishing the part you would call “material ontology.” And besides I had to have a brief discussion with Bergson and Whitehead.
v I cannot wait to see it come out! It is a short 175 pages, but extremely condensed.
v And how is you work coming along? I would be very grateful if you could give me your Sketches in aesthetics, because I lost them when moving from Freiburg and I would like to read them again (and your other aesthetic works). Mrs. XXX did a good review of the Controversy under Forbes. After all, her translation – although very “correct” – is not beneficial for the work. Too boring. But it should not bring harm to the ontology.

v This year, I must finally finish the 2nd volume on creativity – it is going terribly, as I have put together my ideas so long ago and it only need to be supplemented with “erudition” – and this is endless – there is always something new that should be taken into account!! (The first volume is already in print).

v I will be finidhing now, I am sending my most sincere words of respect to the both of you. Maybe I can see you next summer. This year I was in Switzerland in May for just 2 weeks (I gave a lecture on Leibniz and modern science).

v Once again, best regards

Teresa

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