Barbara Skarga

Barbara Skarga
Barbara Skarga, May 17, 2000
Born	25 October 1919 Warszawa, Poland
Died	18 September 2009(2009-09-18) (aged 89) Poznań, Poland
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Philosophy of dialogue
Main interests	Epistemology, Humanity, Ontology, Ethics

Barbara Skarga (October 25, 1919 – September 18, 2009) was a Polish philosophy historian and philosopher who worked mainly in ethics and epistemology. Member of Polish Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Born in Warsaw in Reformed tradition family with gentry roots. Her sister was actress Hanna Skarżanka and brother was Edward Skarga. Barbara Skarga studied philosophy at Wilno University. During World War II she was a member of resistant movement Armia Krajowa. In 1944 she was arrested by Soviet NKVD and sentenced to 10 years of katorga. After that, she was forced to live in Kolhoz. She came back to Poland in 1955 and graduated in 1957 at Warsaw University where she also finished postgraduate studies and received the PhD title. Became Philosophy Professor in 1988.
Skarga was an editor-in-chief of philosophy magazine "Etyka". In 1995 awarded Order of the White Eagle.
She died on September 18, 2009 and was buried on September 25 in Warsaw.

Bibliography

• Narodziny pozytywizmu polskiego 1831-1864 (1964)
• Kłopoty intelektu. Między Comte'em a Bergsonem (1975)
• Czas i trwanie. Studia nad Bergsonem (1982)
• Po wyzwoleniu 1944-1956 (1985)
• Przeszłość i interpretacje (1987)
• Granice historyczności (1989)
• Tożsamość i różnica. Eseje metafizyczne (1997)
• Ślad i obecność (2002)
• Kwintet metafizyczny (2005)
• Człowiek to nie jest piękne zwierzę (2007)
• Tercet metafizyczny (2009)

External links

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