Władysław Tatarkiewicz
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Władysław Tatarkiewicz (3 April 1886, Warsaw – 4 April 1980, Warsaw) was a Polish philosopher, historian of philosophy, historian of art, esthetician, and ethicist.
In his final years, Tatarkiewicz devoted considerable attention to securing translations of his major works. Of the works listed below, his History of Philosophy and Memoirs remain to be translated into English.
- History of Philosophy, three volumes (Template:Lang-pl, vols. 1-2, 8th ed. 1978; vol. 3, 5th ed. 1978).
- History of Aesthetics, three volumes (vols. 1-2, 1970; vol. 3, 1974; Template:Lang-pl, vols. 1-2, 1962; vol. 3, 1967).
- Analysis of Happiness (1976; Template:Lang-pl [On Happiness], 1962).
- A History of Six Ideas [aesthetic] Ideas (1980; Template:Lang-pl, 2nd ed. 1976).
- On Perfection (English translation by Christopher Kasparek serialized in Dialectics and Humanism: the Polish Philosophical Quarterly, vol. VI, no. 4 [autumn 1979] — vol. VIII, no. 2 [spring 1981]; Template:Lang-pl, 1976; Kasparek's translation has subsequently also appeared in the book: Władysław Tatarkiewicz, On perfection, Warsaw University Press, Center of Universalism, 1992, pp. 9–51; the book is a collection of papers by and about the late Professor Tatarkiewicz).
- Memoirs (Template:Lang-pl, 1979).
[edit]
See also
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Władysław Tatarkiewicz" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
