She was Bruno Schulz's friend and confidant, Witkacy's model and alumni of the Lvov-Warsaw school's foremen – Kazimierz Twardowski and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz.
Friedrich Nietzsche claimed to be Polish in writing at least five times in his books. Why on Earth would this icon of philosophy deny being German and instead insist he belonged to a nation that at the time wasn't even on the map?
Contemporary painter, illustrator, designer and philosopher largely influenced by Russian iconography and the Byzantine style; his earliest works are 1940s representations of female figures
Poland's great Romantic poet, playwright and visionary philosopher. His poetry had extraordinary variety, rich phrasing,and a linguistic innovation and artistic sensitivity.
Painter, illustrator, photographer, playwright, novelist, philosopher, art theorist, and critic; member of the first-ever Polish group of avant-garde artists known as the Formists.
Outstanding writer and essayist and a devotee of Jung, Olga Tokarczuk is an authority on philosophy and arcane knowledge. She is a phenomenon of popularity - admired by both critics and readers.
He is one of the best known sociologists and philosophers in the world. His name is often mentioned as a principal creator of the concept of "post-modernism".
Poet and Professor of Philosophy, her poetry is marked by a distinctly female point of view. There is an acceptance of existence and a tenderness towards the world.
He was an outstanding Polish philosopher who lived in exile since 1968. Named a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford, his primary interest was the history of philosophy.
A romantic poet, novelist, playwright, and philosopher;in order to escape his father's domineering influence, he went abroad and lived the majority of his life as an expatriate.
A poet who read philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University; he published three volumes of poetry most of them focused on his concept of "ineffective poetry."
This is the second and last part of Blonski's monograph on Witkacy (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz). It presents the world of this artist's novels and plays. The first part, entitled "Od Stasia do Witkacego", had an excellent reception...
