Abstract

This is a collection of twelve essays, four of which are from the English-speaking world and eight from Poland, home of the phenomenologist Roman Ingarden. Though he has written widely in ontology, epistemology, axiology, logic, and philosophical anthropology, Ingarden is chiefly known, especially in the English-speaking world, for his work in aesthetics. His chief works in this area, The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art --both appearing in English translation in 1973-established him as a philosopher of literature. But his work in aesthetics extended both to the level of general theory and to the level of the analysis of other aesthetic regions, such as painting, architecture, sculpture, music, and film.