Stróżewski, Woleński, Zagajewski and Potocka talk about Roman Ingarden

On Tuesday 22 September at 6 pm MOCAK invites you to an event devoted to Roman Ingarden, which accompanies the exhibition Philosopher and Photographer and the publication of the same title, with the participants Władysław Stróżewski, Jan Woleński and Adam Zagajewski, hosted by Maria Anna Potocka. The session will be conducted in Polish. The session will be simultaneously translated into Polish Sign Language (PJM) by Magdalena Sipowicz and Marzena Kasperska.

Roman Ingarden (1893–1970) was born in Krakow. He studied mathematics and philosophy in Lvov, Göttingen, Vienna and Freiburg im Breisgau. He wrote his doctoral thesis in 1918 under the supervision of Edmund Husserl. He pursued an academic career, and in 1933 he was promoted to Professor at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov. During 1950–1956, for political reasons, he was forced to suspend his academic work. It was at that time that he created the majority of the works shown in this exhibition. In 1957 he was appointed the director of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University, where he succeeded in creating the most formidable centre of phenomenology in Poland. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences or Polish Academy of Learning. He wrote many books and articles and made many translations, ranging from philosophy of literature to aesthetics, as well as the theory of cognition and ontology. Roman Ingarden became renowned in the world mainly for his works in the field of ontology and aesthetics. The exhibition provides an opportunity for confronting his philosophical thought with his photographic practice.

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