Postcard from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 24.11.1936

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 24.11.1936

Related places Warsaw

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type postcard

Subject matter academic issues, personal issues

Field ontology, philosophy

Tags #being for itself, #correspondence with Cornelius, #depression, #Hans Cornelius, #idealism, #Maria Ingarden, #philosophers, #Roman Ingarden, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Warsaw, #Witkacy

24.XI 1936
Honoured and Dear Professor:
Thank you very much for your cards. For the love of God, please do not take “pity” on my letter and response: I can wait as long as it takes. Terrible things have manifested themselves in my correspondence with Cornelius. I would like you to look at this controversy “on the traverse” of idealism. Wie kann man ein erkenntnistherretischer Idealist sein ohne ein Ontologischer zugleich werden, das kann ich nicht kapieren. [How can one be an epistemological idealist without becoming ontological at the same time? I cannot understand that.]
I am already in Warsaw in a state of deep depression.
I enclose words of respect and affection to you and your wife. F.G. [family greetings]
Witkacy
I haven’t seen any of the philosophers here yet. I’m writing about this state of being for itself, but it is a very difficult thing.

Postcard

Dr. Roman Ingarden
Prof. U.J.K.
Lwiw
Zacharjewicz St. 7 apt. 8