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The Literary Work of Art: an Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Literature. By Roman Ingarden. Translated by G. G. Grabowicz. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973. Pp. lxxiii, 415, $15. - The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art. By Roman Ingarden. Translated by R. A. Crowley and K. R. Olson. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973. Pp. xxx, 436. $15. - Roman Ingarden and Contemporary Polish Aesthetics: Essays. Edited by P. Graff and S. Krzemién-Ojak. Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers, 1975. Pp. 267.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

Peter McCormick
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The University of Ottawa

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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1976

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References

1 These two works were first published respectively in German and Polish, under the title, Das literarische Kunstwerk (Halle, 1931)Google Scholar and O poznawaniu dziela literachiego (Lvov, 1937). The translations here are respectively of the 3rd German edition (Tübingen, 1965) and of the much enlarged German translation of the Polish (Tübingen, 1968).

2 Now available in a much enlarged German translation as Der Streit um die Existenz der Welt (3 vols., Tübingen, 1964–65)Google Scholar. Part of the unrevised original Polish edition has been translated by Michejda, H.R. as Time and Modes of Being (Spingfield, Illinois, 1964)Google Scholar. This English translation includes only sections 1–3, 8–15, 25–28, and parts of section 31 of Spór.

3 Ingarden's works are detailed in Poltawski's, Andrzej “Bibliographia Prac Romana Ingarden a 1915–1971” in Fenomenologia Romana Ingardena, (Warsaw, 1972), pp. 1954Google Scholar. A much shorter but nonetheless useful bibliography by G. Grabowicz can be found in his translation listed at the head of this review, pp. 397–403.

4 Ingarden's doctoral dissertation was “Intuition und Intellekt bei Henri Bergson: Darstellung and Versuch einer Kritik,” published in Husserl's Jahrbuch für Philosophie und Phänomenologische Forschung, V (Halle, 1922), 285461Google Scholar. His habilitation was “Essentiale Fragen,” Jahrbuch, VII (Halle, 1925), pp. 125304Google Scholar. These theses show Ingarden at work respectively on one of the cardinal concepts of phenomenology and on the first outline of the ontology tested in his later works on aesthetics and fully developed in the German edition of Spór.

5 Some of these analyses will be available shortly in English as Investigations into the Ontology of Art, Music, Painting, Architecture, and the Film.

6 The problem of realism and idealism, the theme of his major work Spór, is the general problem which allows one to organise virtually all of Ingarden's published work. The problem is first treated in “Bemerkungen zum Problem Idealismus-Realismus,” Jahrbuch — Supplement (Halle, 1929), pp. 159190Google Scholar. Ingarden's extremely cogent criticisms of Husserl can be found first in his reviews of some of Husserl's work, but especially in his major article, “Über den transcendentalen Idealismus bei E. Husserl,” in Husserl et la pensée moderne (The Hague, 1959), pp. 190204Google Scholar, and in his lifelong correspondance with Husserl, , Briefe an Roman Ingarden (The Hague, 1968)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 In trying to respect the limits of a review and the richness and length of these books, I have chosen to leave criticism of Ingarden's views aside. Of the very little criticism of Ingarden's work from an Angle-American perspective see especially Gary Iseminger's incisive arguments against one of the keystone concepts in Ingarden's entire work in “Roman Ingarden and the Aesthetic Object,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 33 (1973), 417–420. I have tried to argue against his views in my paper at the Conference on Marxist Criticisms of Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Roman Ingarden at Warsaw in June 1975 entitled “On Ingarden's account of the Existence of Aesthetic Objects, “Studia Filozoficzne (in Polish, forthcoming), and in Dialectics and Humanism (in English, forthcoming simultaneously).