Letter from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 24.03.1934

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 24.03.1934

Related places Warsaw

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type letter

Subject matter academic issues, organizational issues, personal issues, portrait issue

Field art., idealism, logistics, painting, philosophy

Tags #dissertation, #Edmund Husserl, #Ideen, #letter, #Logische Untersuchungen, #logistics, #nominalism, #On the identity of the work of music, #painting, #Philosophical Society in Warsaw, #portrait, #Privatsach.register, #Roman Ingarden, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Warsaw, #Witkacy, #Władysław Tatarkiewicz

24.III 1934

Most Honoured Professor.

You have no idea what pleasure your book and letter have given me. Unfortunately, I am extremely bad at letter-writing – it’s the malaise of non-writing, simply. I am currently reading “On the Identity of the Work of Music”. I am making notes and I intend to write something about it and then I will send it to you. What to do – I am a nominalist. – I know Husserl’s Log[ische] Unt[ersuchungen] and Ideen, if I have held on until now, I think I shall die a nominalist. That’s why I would have to elucidate some problems in a completely different way. I am closing now – it is easier for me to write a dissertation than a letter. At the moment, I cannot repay you with my books (I will try to settle this when I’m in W.[arsaw]), so I only promise you a “beautiful” portrait in the event of a meeting. I have begun to read the vol[ume] of Tatarkiewicz, but I have to scribble over a book thoroughly and write a Privatsach.register – without it – there’s no use. I’ll be reading yours immediately when I’m done with the other one. I am now writing about logistics for a presentation in the Philosophical Society in W [in Warsaw]. The logisticians themselves encouraged me to do so.
I enclose words of deep respect, affection, and gratitude,

n n n n n n n Witkacy

I must admit that I had barely deciphered your letter.