Nationality Polish Role Philosopher Region Western philosophy Schools of thought Marxism | Main interests Epistemology Influenced by Karl Marx Name Adam Schaff | |
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Born March 10, 1913 ( 1913-03-10 ) Lwow, Poland (now Lviv) Era 20th-century philosophy Died November 12, 2006, Warsaw, Poland Awards Order of Polonia Restituta Books Sprache und Erkenntnis Alma mater Lviv University, Moscow State University | ||
Adam Schaff
Adam Schaff (10 March 1913, Lwów – 12 November 2006, Warsaw) was a Polish Marxist philosopher.
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Of Jewish origin, Schaff was born in Lwów into a lawyer's family. 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.
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