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Roman Ingarden 1893 – 1970

Roman Ingarden (1893 – 1970) was a Polish philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy.

Roman Ingarden was a Polish philosopher and a student of Edmund Husserl, the most distinguished representative of phenomenology in twentieth-century Polish philosophy. He broke with Husserl over the latter's transcendental idealism, defending a realist phenomenology in his monumental Controversy over the Existence of the World. His other major writings developed a phenomenological aesthetics and ontology of the work of art, especially the literary work, in which the work is understood as a stratified intentional formation that the reader concretizes. He spent the war years in occupied Poland writing his major realist treatise.

Key facts

Nationality
Polish
Era
Contemporary
Movements
Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy

Selected quotes

  • Attributed to Roman Ingarden:

    “The literary work of art is a stratified, intentional formation.”

  • Attributed to Roman Ingarden:

    “Every work of art has a structure of distinct strata that interact in the experience of the reader.”

  • Attributed to Roman Ingarden:

    “The reader concretizes the work in the act of reading.”

  • Attributed to Roman Ingarden:

    “What is real is what is independent of any consciousness; what is intentional depends on it.”

  • Attributed to Roman Ingarden:

    “Aesthetic value is not added to the work; it is already there to be discovered.”

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When did Roman Ingarden live?
Roman Ingarden was born in 1893 and died in 1970.
Where was Roman Ingarden from?
Roman Ingarden was a Polish philosopher of the Contemporary era.
What philosophical movements is Roman Ingarden associated with?
Roman Ingarden was associated with Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy.
What was Roman Ingarden known for?
Roman Ingarden was a Polish philosopher and a student of Edmund Husserl, the most distinguished representative of phenomenology in twentieth-century Polish philosophy.
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There are 5 attributed quotations from Roman Ingarden in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.