[TATARKIEWICZ Władysław]. Two manuscript letters and one typewritten postcard by Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz to Zdzi...

[TATARKIEWICZ Wladyslaw]. Two manuscript letters and one typewritten postcard from Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz to Zdzislaw Najder, 1967-1968.
Two-page letters on an A5-like sheet, postcard-sized postcard. Postcard dated. 18 Feb. 1967, Warsaw, contains a request to clarify the topic of a lecture to be given by Tatarkiewicz in the USA. The scholar suggests familiarizing the audience with his as yet unpublished work on Sarbiewski. Under the typed text is the author's handwritten signature. The first letter bears the date 16 I 1968, written on University of California letterhead. Tatarkiewicz reports a change of apartment ("the present one is smaller but closer to the Campus and the stores"). "I have basically finished my lectures, but I am nevertheless continuing to give them to a group of students who have become passionate about the history of aesthetics." The second letter was sent from New York on April 27, 1968. The author mentions a lecture he gave on Sarbiewski, and suggests supplementing the footnotes in the book he is preparing. "We leave with regret". Very good condition.
W. Tatarkiewicz (1886-1980) - Polish intellectual: philosopher, historian of philosophy and historian of art, ethicist and aesthetician, author of a well-known three-volume textbook on the history of philosophy. He taught at the University of Warsaw, the University of Vilnius and Poznan, also in Lausanne. "He went down in the history of Polish science mainly as an ethicist and axiologist, author of works that have been reprinted many times, including the 3-volume 'History of Philosophy,' containing a synthetic overview of philosophical views and trends in different periods of history, which was a basic academic textbook for many years, the 'History of Aesthetics' and the accessible Philosophy of Morals. He was a member of the Lvov-Warsaw philosophical school, created by Kazimierz Twardowski [...].
He was also a varsavianist, author of several books devoted mainly to Warsaw's Baths [...]. Signatory of Letter 34" (Wikipedia).