Adam Schaff

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Adam Schaff

Adam Schaff (born March 10, 1913 in Lemberg , † November 12, 2006 in Warsaw ) was a Polish Marxist philosopher .

Adam Schaff came from a Jewish family of Polish lawyers. He graduated from the Law Faculty of Lviv University and from the École des Sciences Politiques et Économiques in Paris, and received his doctorate in philosophy from Lomonosov University in Moscow in 1945 . After the war he held the chair of philosophy in Łódź. From 1948 he was an associate professor, then a full professor in Warsaw. At first, Schaff was a loyal supporter of orthodox Marxism , but from the mid-1960s onwards he contributed significantly to the development of democratic socialism .

His political and scientific career was changeable. From 1948 he taught Marxist philosophy at Warsaw University . From 1951 he was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, from 1957 to 1968 he was director of the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology at the Academy of Sciences. Since 1932 a member of the illegal Communist Party of Poland , he became a member of the Polish United Workers' Party in 1948 and was a member of its Central Committee from 1955 to 1968. At times he was considered the chief ideologist of the PVAP. In 1984 he was expelled from the party. Since 1969 he was a member of the Club of Rome . In the 1970s he taught social philosophy as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna . Even after the Eastern Bloc dissolved in 1989, Adam Schaff placed his hopes on humanistic socialism.

Works

  • On some questions of the Marxist theory of truth , 1954, Berlin: Dietz.
  • Marx or Sartre? , 1964, Vienna; Cologne; Stuttgart; Zurich: Europa Verl.
  • Language and Knowledge , 1965, Vienna; Frankfurt; Zurich: Europa Verl.
  • Marxism and the human individual. , 1965 Vienna; Frankfurt; Zurich: Europa Verl.
  • Introduction to Semantics , 1966, Berlin: Deutscher Verl. D. Knowledge VEB.
  • Essays on the Philosophy of Language , 1968, Frankfurt: Europäische Verlagsanst.
  • History and Truth , 1970, Vienna; Frankfurt; Zurich: Europa-Verl.
  • Theory of Truth , 1971, Vienna: Europa Verl.
  • Man, subject and object , 1973, Vienna: Europaverlag. ISBN 3-203-50472-3 .
  • Structuralism and Marxism , 1974, Vienna: Europaverlag. ISBN 3-203-50519-3 .
  • Humanism, philosophy of language, epistemology of Marxism , 1975, Vienna: Europaverlag. ISBN 3-203-50541-X .
  • Sociolinguistics , 1976, Vienna: Europaverlag. ISBN 3-203-50591-6 .
  • Alienation as a Social Phenomenon , 1977, Vienna: Europaverlag. ISBN 3-203-50630-0 .
  • Stereotypes and human behavior , 1980, Vienna, Munich, Zurich: Europaverlag. ISBN 3-203-50750-1 .
  • The communist movement at the crossroads , 1982, Vienna; Munich ; Zurich: European publishing house. ISBN 3-203-50794-3 .
  • With Günter Friedrichs : For better or for worse. Microelectronics and society. Report to the Club of Rome , 1982, Vienna: Europa-Verlag.
  • In the midst of a new technological revolution , 1983, Vienna: Gpa.
  • Poland today , 1984, Vienna; Munich ; Zurich: European publishing house. ISBN 3-203-50861-3 .
  • Introduction to Epistemology , 1984, Vienna; Munich ; Zurich: European publishing house. ISBN 3-203-50878-8 .
  • Where does the way lead? , 1985, Vienna; Munich ; Zurich: European publishing house. ISBN 3-203-50909-1 .
  • Perspectives of Modern Socialism , 1988, Vienna; Zurich: Europaverl. ISBN 3-203-50960-1 .
  • Ecumenical Humanism , c1992, Salzburg: Müller. ISBN 3-7013-0828-4 .
  • My Century , 1997, Berlin: Dietz. ISBN 3-320-01928-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Zeit, No. 23/1988: "When the spirit blows where it may ..." [1]
  2. ^ Adam Schaff: The industrial revolution and socialism of the future, in the magazine UTOPIE Kreativ, issue 15, September 1991, p. 48 ISSN 0863-4890
personal data
SURNAME Do it, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2006
Place of death Warsaw