Marek Siemek
{{Short description|Polish academic (1942–2011)}}
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Marek Jan Siemek (November 27, 1942 – May 30, 2011) was a Polish philosopher and historian of German transcendental philosophy (German idealism). He was a professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw and the director of its Department of Social Philosophy.{{cite web|url=http://www.nowakrytyka.pl/spip.php?article170&var_mode=calcul|title=Hegel i różnica epistemologiczna|language=Polish|accessdate=19 February 2010}}
Marek Siemek was a disciple of Bronisław Baczko, one of the main representatives of the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas. In his early works Siemek interprets marxism as a form of transcendental philosophy. In his later works ha abandons Marxism for hegelianism interpreted as transcendental social philosophy.
From 1986 member of International Advisory Committee of The Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft. Fellow of Collegium Invisibile.{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.edu.pl/index.php?id=tutorzy&kat=Czlonkowie |title=List of Fellows |publisher=ci.edu.pl |accessdate=25 April 2011}} On 10 February 2006 he received doctorate honoris causa of the University of Bonn.
Marek Siemek had one son, currently residing in the United States.
Main publications
- Fryderyk Schiller, Warszawa, Wiedza Powszechna, 1970
- Idea transcendentalizmu u Fichtego i Kanta, Warszawa, PWN, 1977
- Filozofia, dialektyka, rzeczywistość, Warszawa, PIW, 1982
- W kręgu filozofów, Warszawa, Czytelnik, 1984
- Filozofia spełnionej nowoczesności - Hegel, Wykłady Kopernikańskie w Humanistyce, vol. 2, Toruń, Wydawnictwo UMK, 1995.
- Hegel i filozofia, Warszawa, Oficyna Naukowa, 1998
- Vernunft und Intersubjektivität. Zur philosophisch-politischen Identität der europäischen Moderne, Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000
- Wolność, rozum, intersubiektywność, Warszawa, Oficyna Naukowa, 2002{{cite web|url=http://www.pthm.free.ngo.pl/?Teksty_on-line|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303153143/http://www.pthm.free.ngo.pl/?Teksty_on-line|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 March 2012|title=Polskie Towarzystwo Hegla i Marksa|language=Polish|accessdate=19 February 2010}}
= Translations =
- "Prawdy szukamy obaj". Z korespondencji między Goethem i Schillerem, with Jerzy Prokopiuk, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1974 (translation of the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller)
- Martin Heidegger, Nauka i namysł; Przezwyciężenie metafizyki, in: Martin Heidegger, Budować, mieszkać, myśleć. Eseje wybrane, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1977
- György Lukács, Młody Hegel. O powiązaniach dialektyki z ekonomią, BKF, PWN, Warszawa 1980
- György Lukács, Historia i świadomość klasowa., BWF, PWN, Warszawa 1988.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Życie Jezusa, in: Zygmunt Freud, Mojżesz i monoteizm, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1995.
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Teoria Wiedzy. Wybór pism, vol. 1, BKF, PWN, Warszawa 1996
References
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External links
- [http://www.filozofia.uw.edu.pl/pracownicy_old/informator/pracownicy/siemek.htm Marek Siemek's page at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw]
- [http://www.pfl.uw.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=159&Itemid=43 Stanisław Gromadzki, Marcin Miłkowski, Wstęp (Introduction) to the philosophical journal Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki 1(16)/2007]
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Category:Fellows of Collegium Invisibile
Category:Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Category:Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
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