Volume 10, Number 8 · April 25, 1968
Philosophy in a Cold Climate
By Anthony Quinton
Gnosiology
by Tadeusz Kotarbinski, translated by Olgierd Wojtasiewicz
Pergamon Press, 548 pp., $18.00
Praxiology
by Tadeusz Kotarbinski, translated by Olgierd Wojtasiewicz
Pergamon Press, 219 pp., $7.50
Polish Analytical Philosophy
by Henryk Skolimowski
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 275 pp., 40s.
Philosophy and Ideology
by Z.A. Jordan
D. Reidel, 600 pp., 58 francs (Swiss)
A Philosophy of Man
by Adam Schaff
Lawrence and Wishart, 139 pp., 15s.
The Alienation of Reason
by Leszek Kolakowski
Doubleday, 219 pp., $4.95
Der Mensch Ohne Alternative
by Leszek Kolakowski
R. Piper, 280 pp., DM 12.80
The Polish philosophy of this century, best known for its achievements in formal logic, is a most impressive cultural phenomenon. In his extensive study of its vicissitudes during the Stalinist period Zbigniew Jordan observes that its beginning can be exactly dated. In 1895, when he was thirty-one, Kazimierz Twardowski returned from working with Franz Brentano in Vienna to take up a chair at the University of Lwow. While in Vienna he had written an important monograph on philosophical psychology and he could well have gone on to a successful career in the highly professional surroundings from which Husserl, Meinong, and the phenomenological movement in general were emerging. At Lwow he found the philosophy of his own country in a loose, amateurish, edificatory condition. Until his death in 1938 he devoted himself to the task of transforming it into what was perhaps the most rigorously and effectively rational philosophical community in the world.
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