Letter from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 05.07.1935

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 5.07.1935

Related places Zakopane

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type letter

Subject matter academic issues, portrait issue, publication issues

Field philosophy

Tags #Alfred North Whitehead, #chief work, #Das literarische Kunstwerk, #essay about causation, #Ferdynad Goetel, #Ingarden seine rote (transcendente) Kugel in der linken Hand holtend, #Ingarden und seine Rose, #Kazimierz Twardowski, #materialism, #monadology, #painting, #portrait, #reism, #review, #Roman Ingarden, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Tadeusz Kotarbiński, #Vom formalen Aufbau des individuellen Gegenstandes, #Witkacy, #Zakopane

5.VII 1935
Honoured and Dear Professor:
I finished (L.K.) 2 days ago and moved on to Gegenstand . Generally, now I will start living as a parasite in your philosophical interior, as I did with Kotarbiński a year ago. K [otarbiński] is to write a review of my “chief work” [“hauptwerk”] (using F. Goetel’s style). Before that, he absorbed 200 and over [pages] of my manuscripts, containing criticism of his reism and materialism. Although we are friends, I get cold feet: I have awoken the lion from a long nap: he is roaring and wagging his tail: what will it lead to? I immediately found in (G) mutual accusations against K[otarbiński], which I was very happy about. In mid-July I will be in Z[akopane] and I will stay there for sure (if at all, etc.) until the end of VIII [August], and maybe IX [September]. So I will struggle there with you and Whitehead at the same time. I have corrected the popular monadology and written an “essay” about causation – that’s all. I sent Twardowski my “hauptwerk” and received a cold-polite confirmation – I am not demanding anything from anyone – it only gives me relative peace, and as I am always prepared for the worst, I welcome every “smile of fortune” as a wonderful surprise. I wish to do two imaginative-caricatural compositions entitled “Ingarden und seine Rose” and “Ingarden seine rote (transcendente) Kugel in der linken Hand holtend”. Troutispice to criticize your vies.

I enclose words of deep respect and affection,
n Witkacy