Postcard from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 31.10.1937

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 31.10.1937

Related places Lviv, Zakopane

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type postcard

Subject matter academic issues, personal issues

Field phenomenology, philosophy

Tags #acts, #awareness, #biology, #body, #climbing, #correlate, #Kasprowy, #Kasprowy Peak, #Lviv, #organism, #pure consciousness, #Roman Ingarden, #self, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Tatras, #Witkacy, #Zakopane

31.X [1937]

In addition, I ask: What is pure awareness like, is it punctual? How it happens that it is here, connected (and how) with this body, which for whatever reason (as correlate) fools around, pretending to be an organism. How spaceless, if it says: this is my calf. Acts are ichlich, because they are founded in the body. How do the contents exist in a punctual self? How is this happening and why? If the body is real, everything becomes understandable. Disregarding biology. Why make the world artificially nonunderstandable and then examine such artificially created secrets.
E.W.R.a.A [I enclose words of respect and affection]
n Witkacy

And why were you not here? [inscribed on a postcard with the view of the cable car to Kasprowy Peak, and of climbing on this route].

Postcard

Dr. Roman Ingarden
Prof. U.J.K.
Lviv
Zacharjewicz Street 7, Apt. 8