Marek Jan Siemek (November 27, 1942 – May 30, 2011) was a Polish philosopher and historian of German

transcendental philosophy In philosophy, transcendence is the basic ground concept from the word's literal meaning (from Latin), of climbing or going beyond, albeit with varying connotations in its different historical and cultural stages. It includes philosophies, systems ...

(

German idealism German idealism is a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

). He was a professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...

and the director of its Department of Social Philosophy. Marek Siemek was a disciple of

Bronisław Baczko Bronisław Baczko (13 June 1924 – 29 August 2016)
was a Polish

, one of the main representatives of the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas. In his early works Siemek interprets

marxism Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, ...

as a form of

. In his later works ha abandons Marxism for

hegelianism Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealism, German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political phi ...

interpreted as transcendental social philosophy. From 1986 member of International Advisory Committee of The Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft. Fellow of

Collegium Invisibile Collegium Invisibile is an Learned society, academic society founded in 1995 in Warsaw, Poland, Warsaw that affiliates outstanding Polish students in the humanities and science with distinguished scholars in accordance with the idea of a libera ...

. On 10 February 2006 he received doctorate ''honoris causa'' of the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

. Marek Siemek had one son, currently residing in the United States.

Main publications

* ''Fryderyk Schiller'', Warszawa, Wiedza Powszechna, 1970 * ''Idea transcendentalizmu u Fichtego i Kanta'', Warszawa, PWN, 1977 * ''Filozofia, dialektyka, rzeczywistość'', Warszawa, PIW, 1982 * ''W kręgu filozofów'', Warszawa, Czytelnik, 1984 * ''Filozofia spełnionej nowoczesności - Hegel'', Wykłady Kopernikańskie w Humanistyce, vol. 2, Toruń, Wydawnictwo UMK, 1995. * ''Hegel i filozofia'', Warszawa, Oficyna Naukowa, 1998 * ''Vernunft und Intersubjektivität. Zur philosophisch-politischen Identität der europäischen Moderne'', Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000 * ''Wolność, rozum, intersubiektywność'', Warszawa, Oficyna Naukowa, 2002

Translations

* ''"Prawdy szukamy obaj". Z korespondencji między Goethem i Schillerem'', with Jerzy Prokopiuk, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1974 (translation of the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller) *

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art ...

, ''Nauka i namysł; Przezwyciężenie metafizyki'', in: Martin Heidegger, ''Budować, mieszkać, myśleć. Eseje wybrane'', Czytelnik, Warszawa 1977 *

György Lukács György Lukács (born Bernát György Löwinger; ; ; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and Aesthetics, aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an inter ...

, ''Młody Hegel. O powiązaniach dialektyki z ekonomią'', BKF, PWN, Warszawa 1980 * György Lukács, ''Historia i świadomość klasowa''., BWF, PWN, Warszawa 1988. *

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy and t ...

, ''Życie Jezusa'', in: Zygmunt Freud, ''Mojżesz i monoteizm'', Czytelnik, Warszawa 1995. *

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; ; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Ka ...

, ''Teoria Wiedzy. Wybór pism'', vol. 1, BKF, PWN, Warszawa 1996

References

External links

Marek Siemek's page at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw

Stanisław Gromadzki, Marcin Miłkowski, ''Wstęp'' (''Introduction'') to the philosophical journal ''Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki'' 1(16)/2007
20th-century Polish philosophers 21st-century Polish philosophers 1942 births 2011 deaths Academic staff of the University of Warsaw Polish historians of philosophy Fellows of Collegium Invisibile Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts {{poland-academic-bio-stub