Letter from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 25.02.1936

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 25.02.1936

Related places Warsaw

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type letter

Subject matter personal issues, publication issues, writing activity

Field philosophy

Tags #Aloys Wenzl, #critique of Wittgenstein, #Easter, #Edmund Husserl, #Germany, #Hala Gąsienicowa, #hauptwerk, #inferiority complex, #Leib und Seele, #Ludwig Busse, #Ludwig Wittgenstein, #Maria Ingarden, #monadism, #Philosophical Review, #Roman Ingarden, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Tadeusz Kotarbiński, #Unwashed souls, #Viennese, #Warsaw, #Witkacy

25.II 1936
Honoured and Dear Professor:
Thank you very much for the nice letter, full of interesting news from Germany. I would very much like to hear more in person. I am currently in a v[ery] unlettery temperament, because I am writing two things at once: a critique of Wittgenstein (fighting the demons beyond my capacities I develop myself internally) and the so-called “Unwashed Souls” (a thing about the Polish inferiority complex). Apart from that, I read a lot. That’s how my schedule has worked out, that first I have to deal with the Viennese in my own way, and then move on to you in relation to Husserl, whose new things I must get to know. I read Leib und Seele by Busse and (the same title) by Aloys Wenzel. What things people invent instead of falling simpely [sic.] into monadism? Kotarbiński sent me his criticism of my “hauptwerk”, to which I have responded and I asked (and he too) Tatarkiewicz to publish these in one issue (of PF [Przegląd Filozoficzny] – Philosophical Review). But I do not know if them willing to do it [sic]. It would be a pity if they didn’t, and no benefit for me. I’m sure that until April I’ll stay put here. Are you not planning a trip here for E[aster]? At any rate, in March I will not be in W[arsaw].
I r[eally] miss a good conversation with you. Meanwhile, I enclose words of respect and affection for you both, F.G. = family greetings

n n n Witkacy
How much I envy you that you can see something outside Hala Gąsienicowa. Which is also fine – I do not complain, but after all, etc.