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Nationality
  
Polish

Role
  
Philosopher

Region
  
Western philosophy

Schools of thought
  
Main interests
  
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

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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1918 Adam Schaff player piano


Life

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.

Works

  • Word and Concept
  • Language and Cognition
  • Introduction to Semantic
  • Problems of the Marxist Theory of Truth
  • A Philosophy of Man
  • References

    Adam Schaff Wikipedia


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