Letter from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 05.04.1935

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 5.04.1935

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type letter

Subject matter academic issues, publication issues

Field phenomenology, philosophy

Tags #Das literarische Kunstwerk, #discussion, #Edmund Husserl, #hauptwerk, #idealism, #intentionality, #Mianowski Fund, #overcoming the idealism of Husserl, #psychological terms, #Roman Ingarden, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Tadeusz Kotarbiński, #Über die Gefahr einer Petitio Principii in der Erkenntistheorie, #Witkacy

5.IV 1935
Honoured and Dear Professor:
Thank you kindly for „Peticio” because this is one of the two things that motivated me most. But I need to own this book to write about it because I must take notes in the book. I am past pg. 130 in „Lit. K.Werk”. I am wading through it with greater and greater interest. Objections are growing as well and matters for discussion, supposing Professor will want to chat with me at all. But when I will “absorb” you, I will write something bigger, similar to what I wrote about Kotarbinski, whom I attempted to decipher on 200 and dozens of pages of a manuscript. I have already given it to him to read. The problem of overcoming the idealism of Husserl by you motivated me to the highest degree. But I am an opponent of act and intentionality. I believe, that these are shortcuts (and not definitive concepts), which can be reduced to psychological terms. I have type written 42 pages about it – if Professor ever has time for it, I can send it to you. I bet you have received my “hauptwerk” from M[ianowski] F[und]. They apparently added a page of a copy of a rev[iew] but it was not my idea. Because I do not know when we will see each other, I am enclosing a card with my [book] dedication for pot[ential] insertion.
I enclose words of deep respect and affection and once more I thank you

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