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
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Attributed to Roman Ingarden:
“The literary work of art is a stratified, intentional formation.”
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Attributed to Roman Ingarden:
“Every work of art has a structure of distinct strata that interact in the experience of the reader.”
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Attributed to Roman Ingarden:
“The reader concretizes the work in the act of reading.”
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“What is real is what is independent of any consciousness; what is intentional depends on it.”
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“Aesthetic value is not added to the work; it is already there to be discovered.”
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- Roman Ingarden was born in 1893 and died in 1970.
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- Roman Ingarden was a Polish philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Roman Ingarden was associated with Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy.
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- 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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