Polish Phenomenology Abroad at the Turn of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: The Key Assumptions of Anna Teresa Tymieniecka’s Phenomenology of Life Cover Image

Fenomenologia polska przełomu XX i XXI wieku na obczyźnie. Kluczowe założenia fenomenologii życia Anny Teresy Tymienieckiej
Polish Phenomenology Abroad at the Turn of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: The Key Assumptions of Anna Teresa Tymieniecka’s Phenomenology of Life

Author(s): Magdalena Mruszczyk
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: mathesis universalis; Polish philosophy; emigration; interdisciplinary dialogue; New Enlightment;

Summary/Abstract: This article is a short presentation of the main assumptions of the concept of phenomenology of life by contemporary Polish philosopher Anna Teresa Tymieniecka (1923-2014). These are the assumptions that Tymieniecka pointed out in one of her statement presented at the Congress of Polish Culture in London in 1985. The purpose of philosophical section was to outline the situation of Polish philosophy and Polish culture on emigration in the context of the crisis of European culture. Tymieniecka, who was scientifically active in the USA, presented her own point of view of this crisis as having the source in the absence of communication between various fields of knowledge, and also between science in general and other forms of human culture-activity. She also presented her own vision of overcoming this crisis in the form of the conception of phenomenology of the human creative condition as the new mathesis universalis.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 135-152
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish