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Master and Student. Władysław Tatarkiewicz and Bolesław Miciński
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This article discusses the intellectual affiliations between two outstanding representatives of different generations of Polish philosophers: Władysław Tatarkiewicz and Bolesław Miciński. The former had become a master for many young Polish intellectuals during the interwar period. He also influenced Miciński, who was his student and assistant at the University of Warsaw and died young in France in 1943. Relations between master and the student were forged in the period between 1931–1942. Tatarkiewicz’s literary, historical, philosophical and aesthetic culture shaped Miciński’s interest in French philosophy of the 17th century (Descartes, Pascal), aesthetics and Kant. In the case of the latter, it resulted in his famous essay Portrait of Kant. Both men were friends of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy). They valued his aesthetic views and theatrical merits, and promoted them in various ways. The author of The Shoemakers considered them, in turn, to be philosophical authorities. Under the direction of Tatarkiewicz, Miciński studied and wrote his MA thesis entitled Reality and its Deformation in Art (1936), which demonstrates that he had inherited analytical mastery and logical culture from his master. Another feature of his philosophising was semanticism – i.e., conducting linguistic analyses, especially in the case of undefined and unclear concepts. Both men’s model of research was analytical philosophy. In the academic year 1937/1938 Miciński stayed in France, where he worked under the guidance of Jacques Chevalier, who was a close friend of Tatarkiewicz. However, the French philosopher’s influence on Miciński requires a separate study.
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Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Bolesław Miciński, Witkacy, literature, estheticsDetails
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