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.
Marek Siemek was a disciple of BronisÃ
Âaw 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 he 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. 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, rzeczywistoÃ
ÂÃÂ, Warszawa, PIW, 1982
- W krÃÂgu filozofów, Warszawa, Czytelnik, 1984
- Filozofia speÃ
Ânionej nowoczesnoÃ
Âci - Hegel, WykÃ
Âady KopernikaÃ
Âskie w Humanistyce, vol. 2, ToruÃ
Â, 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
- WolnoÃ
ÂÃÂ, rozum, intersubiektywnoÃ
ÂÃÂ, Warszawa, Oficyna Naukowa, 2002
Translations
- "Prawdy szukamy obaj". Z korespondencji miÃÂdzy Goethem i Schillerem, with Jerzy Prokopiuk, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1974 (translation of the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller)
- Martin Heidegger, Nauka i namysÃ
Â; PrzezwyciÃÂÃ
¼enie metafizyki, in: Martin Heidegger, BudowaÃÂ, mieszkaÃÂ, myÃ
ÂleÃÂ. Eseje wybrane, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1977
- György Lukács, MÃ
Âody Hegel. O powiÃÂ
zaniach dialektyki z ekonomiÃÂ
, BKF, PWN, Warszawa 1980
- György Lukács, Historia i Ã
ÂwiadomoÃ
ÂÃÂ klasowa., BWF, PWN, Warszawa 1988.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Ã
»ycie Jezusa, in: Zygmunt Freud, MojÃ
¼esz i monoteizm, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1995.
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Teoria Wiedzy. Wybór pism, vol. 1, BKF, PWN, Warszawa 1996
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