Letter from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 12.12.1936

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 12.12.1936

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type letter

Subject matter academic issues, personal issues, portrait issue

Field philosophy

Tags #Alfred North Whitehead, #being for itself, #critique of Whitehead, #depression, #discussion, #Edmund Husserl, #intersubjective world, #Joachim Metallmann, #Kazimierz Twardowski, #lecture, #Ludwig Wittgenstein, #Maria Ingarden, #personalities, #philosophy, #portrait, #Roman Ingarden, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #summary, #Tadeusz Kotarbiński, #Witkacy, #work on Wittgenstein

12.XII 1936
Honoured and Dear Professor:
Thank you very much for the letter. I did not reply, because I was terribly busy, and unfortunately with age I have less and less strength and I cannot live for three like Lt. Wiwulec. I was v[ery] moved that you are interested in my depression. There was a 5 month separation with a certain person, who interests me (in real life) above all else. Now there is a reconciliation, but something in my gut is not right. Besides this, I do not want to stop working on philosophy, and to do this portraits and people are necessary.

The lecture in itself was successful, but in the discussion I was a bit flaccid. It was only yesterday that it ended in a tighter circle at Kotarbeusz’s place. I am writing about being for itself, a response to Metallman on his critique of Whitehead. – I will now start correcting my work on Wittgenstein. I wrote a summary of the lecture in response to Twardowski’s request, which was a privilege for me, and I am sending it to him right now.

I enclose my words of respect and affection to both of you. F. G. [family greetings]

I am just finishing Transc[endental] Log[ic], but I am v[ery] disappointed by Husserl. With these other personalities and the intersubjective world this is a trick, which implies pre-est[ablished] harmony.