Beata Szymańska (born in

Puławy Puławy (, also written Pulawy) is a city in eastern Poland, in Lesser Poland's Lublin Voivodeship, at the confluence of the Vistula and Kurówka River, Kurówka Rivers. Puławy is the capital of Puławy County. The city's 2019 population was Cen ...

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, on 29 January 1938) is a Polish poet, writer and philosopher.

Biography

Beata Szymańska left the philosophy department of the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...

and received her doctorate in

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

in 1977. Several years she worked as research associate at the

. In 1987, she published her book ‘’Berkeley znany i nieznany’’ that was focused on generally unknown aspects of

Berkeley Berkeley most often refers to: *Berkeley, California, a city in the United States **University of California, Berkeley, a public university in Berkeley, California *George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher Berkeley may also refer to ...

’s life and works.Szymańska, Marta. Review Article: George Berkeley’s Philosophy in Polish Studies //

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19 (2008) Beata Szymańska started publishing her fiction in 1961.

Writings

* ''Sny o porządku'' * ''Sztychy reńskie'' * ''Trzciny'' * ''

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German Philosophy, philosopher and one of the central Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works ...

'' * ''Poeta i nieznane'' * ''Co to jest struktualizm'' * ''Wiersze'' *
Berkeley znany i nieznany
'' —

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

etc.:

Ossolineum Ossoliński National Institute (, ZNiO), or the Ossolineum is a Polish cultural Foundation (non-profit), foundation, publishing house, archival institute and a research centre of national significance founded in 1817 in Lwów (now Lviv). Located ...

, 1987. — 51 s. - (Nauka dla wszystkich /Pol. akad. nauk. Oddz. w Krakowie; N 407) Bibliogr.: s.51. * ''Przeżycia i uczucia jako wartości filozofii polskiego modernizmu'' * ''Filozofia Wschodu'', praca zbiorowa pod red. Beaty Szymańskiej, 2001. * ''Słodkich snów Europo'', 2005. * ''Chiński buddyzm chan'', 2009.

Sources

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References

External links

Beata Szymańska’s brief biography
at the website of the Internet journal for philosophy “Nowa Krytyka” * 1938 births Living people People from Puławy People from Lublin Voivodeship (1919–1939) Polish women writers Polish women poets Art writers Polish art historians Polish historians of philosophy George Berkeley scholars Jagiellonian University alumni Polish women art historians 20th-century Polish philosophers 21st-century Polish philosophers {{Poland-philosopher-stub