Adam Schaff
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| Born | March 10, 1913 Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine) |
| Died | November 12, 2006 (aged 93) Warsaw, Poland |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | Lviv University Moscow State University |
| Awards | Order of Polonia Restituta |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Marxism |
Main interests | Epistemology |
Adam Schaff (10 March 1913 – 12 November 2006) was a Polish Marxist philosopher.
Life
Of Jewish origin, Schaff was born in Lemberg into a lawyer's family.[1] Schaff studied economics at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques et Economiques in Paris, and philosophy in Poland, specializing in epistemology. In 1945 he received a philosophy degree at Moscow University, and in 1948 he returned to Warsaw University. He was considered the official ideologue of the Polish United Workers' Party. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Club of Rome.[2]
Works
- Word and Concept
- Language and Cognition
- Introduction to Semantic
- Problems of the Marxist Theory of Truth
- A Philosophy of Man
Several of Schaff's works were translated into German by Witold Leder.[3]
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See also
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References
- ^ http://marxismocritico.com/2013/05/03/adam-schaff-from-semantics-to-political-semiotics/
- ^ Marxists.org Glossary of People http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/s/c.htm
- ^ "Leder, Witold (1913-2007)". WorldCat.
