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

German idealism German idealism was 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 ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

and the director of its Department of Social Philosophy. Marek Siemek was a disciple of Bronisław Baczko, one of the main representatives of the

Warsaw School of the History of Ideas The Warsaw School was a group of Poland, Polish history of ideas, historians of ideas active in the late 1950s and the 1960s. It was headed by Bronisław Baczko and Leszek Kołakowski and also included scholars such as Andrzej Walicki, Jerzy Szacki ...

. In his early works Siemek interprets

marxism Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialec ...

as a form of transcendental philosophy. In his later works ha abandons Marxism for

hegelianism Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends ...

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 Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

. 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 Jerzy Prokopiuk (June 5, 1931 – March 18, 2021) was a Polish anthroposophist, gnostic, philosopher, and translator of literature, born in Warsaw. He translated into Polish works written by Aldous Huxley, Rudolf Steiner, Carl Gustav Jung, Ma ...

, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1974 (translation of the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller) *

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th centu ...

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

György Lukács György Lukács (born György Bernát Löwinger; hu, szegedi Lukács György Bernát; german: Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, critic, and aest ...

, ''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 German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends ...

, ''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