Stanisław Brzozowski (philosopher)

Stanislaw Brzozowski

Stanisław Brzozowski (born June 28, 1878 in Maziarnia near Chełm , Russian Empire , † April 30, 1911 in Florence ) was a Polish philosopher.

Brzozowski developed his philosophy largely under the influence of the philosophers Immanuel Kant and Johann Gottlieb Fichte , later Karl Marx , Friedrich Nietzsche , Henri Bergson and William James . His engagement with historical materialism brought him close to Georges Sorel and Antonio Labriola . A main concept of his philosophy, based on Marx, was work .

Brzozowski died of tuberculosis , which he contracted as a result of prolonged imprisonment in a tsarist prison for activities in the Polish independence movement. In 1908 the Russian writer Vladimir Burzew publicly suspected him of being involved in the tsarist Okhrana . The allegations were repeated in numerous labor movement publications. The Polish writers Karol Irzykowski , Ostap Ortwin and Wacław Nałkowski defended Brzozowski and wrote a memorandum. Also Stanisław Przybyszewski solidarity with Brzozowski. The allegations remained unsolved, but accelerated Brozowski's health collapse.

Brzozowski's work influenced numerous Polish intellectuals such as Andrzej Trzebiński , Czesław Miłosz and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz .

literature

• Jens Herlth, Edward M. Świderski (Eds.): Stanisław Brzozowski and the Migration of Ideas Transnational Perspectives on the Intellectual Field in Twentieth-Century Poland and Beyond . transcript, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4641-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stanisław Brzozowski in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lemiesz i szpada przed sądem publicznym. W sprawie Stanisława Brzozowskiego , here in: Karol Irzykowski: Pisma. Czyn i słowo, Wydawnictwo Lyterackie, Krakau 1980, pp. 173-210.
2. ^ Holger Politt: Stanisław Brzozowski. Hope against the dark future , Wiesbaden 1996, pp. 88–89.