Letter from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 21.11.1938

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 21.11.1938

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type letter

Subject matter academic issues, personal issues

Field philosophy

Tags #academic work, #biological monadism, #comments request, #critique, #drama, #dynamism, #financial problems, #Kazimierz Twardowski, #lecture, #lecturing activity, #mentor, #monadism, #monadology, #non-hypostasis dynamism, #opinion request, #Philosophical Movement, #Philosophical Studies, #print, #process of revising, #Roman Ingarden, #Rudolf Carnap, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #summary, #tax office, #theater, #theatrical piece, #transformation, #Witkacy, #work on Carnap

21.XI 1938
Honoured and Dear Professor:
Thank you very much for the card. I fell into a general writer’s block. I work quite a bit and things are generally better (except for finances due to the terrible exploits of the tax office). I’m writing about Carnap again. Soon I will tackle this critical piece, which you mentioned that if it po[ssibly] succeeds, it would go to the “philo[sophical] studies”. I would prefer to know more or less how many of my pages (2 times larger than this one) it could contain. Besides this, I’ve composed a new theatrical piece. I sent everything to “Ruch” journal on time: 1) a summary of the pap[er] from 7/XII 1936 once again, at the invitation of Twardowski himself (if these ladies lost it, it is unpleasant) 2) from the pap[er] dated 27/VI 1938 on monadism. If the first one is not published, it will probably be better not to publish the second one either – that’s what I think. So why did you “immediately” judge me that I was not on time, etc. I am asking all my “friends”, enemies and Mentors (you belong to this last type) in philosophy, for brief remarks about why they consider biological mona[dism] as impossible. I am asking you as well. I am in the process of revising and some transformation of my view (shifting towards non-hypostasis dynamism) and responses to the remarks will be named specifically (oevres posthumes).
ERFB [I enclose words of respect and friendship for you both] F.G. [family greetings] 3W [Your faithful Witkacy].