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Letter from Władysław Tatarkiewicz written 19.10.1949

Author Władysław Tatarkiewicz
Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers
Archive Archive of Science of PAN and PAU in Cracow
Date of creation 19.10.1949
Reference code in archive K_III-26_D_30
Copyrights all rights reserved
Resource type letter
Subject matter organizational issues, publishing issues
Field modern philosophy, philosophy
Tags #"Man - machine", #1950, #Aleksander Herzen, #All saints, #BKF, #Cracow, #Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, #Justyna Rudniańska, #Library of Classics of Philosophy, #Łódź, #Maria Ossowska, #monadology, #Narcyz Łubnicki, #PAAS, #Philosophical Commission, #Philosophical Review, #Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, #Polish Philosophical Society, #PPS, #PPS management, #publishing house, #publishing plans, #reading on Hercen, #René Descartes, #Stanisław Czajkowski, #Stefan Rudniański

Prof. Dr WŁADYSŁAW TATARKIEWICZ

19.10.49

 

Dear esteemed colleague,

I expect that we’ll meet at the meeting of the Board of the Polish Philosophical Society on the 26th of this month, and subsequently in Cracow, because I want to spend the time around All Saints’ Day there ‒ however, there are a few issues that can’t wait.

Concerning in particular the Library of Classics:

1) Ms Justyna Rudniańska, Stefan’s widow, agrees to the publication of Man a Machine with corrections and without comments.

2) Dr Stanisław Czajkowski (who before the war had already published one or two papers on Descartes in Review) proposes a translation of Leibniz’s Monadology, which he has already partly finished (address: Łódź 9, Sasanek 4a).
3) As you probably know, editorial planning is now being done for 1950. The philosophical department is entrusted to Ms Ossowska. She believes that translations of the classics have, relatively speaking, the greatest chance. You need to send her your plans.

4) I wrote to Łubnicki, offering him a lecture about Herzen at the Polish Academy of Learning Committee in October. So far he hasn’t written back; perhaps this could be left in your hands? I would be very happy if a Commission meeting were to take place this month. If Łubnicki doesn’t let us know, then perhaps we could get someone else for the 28th of this month?

                                                                                              A cordial handshake

                                                                                                              W. Tatarkiewicz