Barbara Skarga (25 October 1919 – 18 September 2009) was a Polish philosophy historian and philosopher who worked mainly in ethics and epistemology.
Barbara Skarga | |
|---|---|
 Skarga in 2000 | |
| Born | 25 October 1919 |
| Died | 18 September 2009 (aged 89) Olsztyn, Poland |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Philosophy of dialogue |
Main interests | Epistemology, humanity, ontology, ethics |
Biography
editSkarga was born in 1919 at Warsaw to a Calvinist family with gentry roots. Her sister was actress Hanna Skarżanka and brother was Edward Skarga.
Skarga studied philosophy at Wilno University. During World War II, she was a member of the resistance movement Armia Krajowa. In 1944 the Soviet NKVD arrested and sentenced her to ten years at the katorga. Afterwards, she was forced to live at a collective farm. After the war she wrote an anonymous memoir about her time in the gulag.[1]
She returned to Poland in 1955[2] and graduated in 1957 with a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Warsaw. In 1988 she became a full professor of philosophy.
Skarga was an editor-in-chief of Etyka. In 1995, she was awarded Order of the White Eagle.
Skarga died on 18 September 2009 in Olsztyn, and was buried in Warsaw.[3]
In 2022, the Barbara Skarga Foundation is based in Warsaw and offers a scholarship to unpublished philosophers.[4]
Bibliography
edit- Narodziny pozytywizmu polskiego 1831-1864 (1964)
- Kłopoty intelektu. Między Comte'em a Bergsonem (1975)
- Czas i trwanie. Studia nad Bergsonem (1982)
- Po wyzwoleniu 1944-1956 (1985)
- Przeszłość i interpretacje (1987)
- Granice historyczności (1989)
- Tożsamość i różnica. Eseje metafizyczne (1997)
- Ślad i obecność (2002)
- Kwintet metafizyczny (2005)
- Człowiek to nie jest piękne zwierzę (2007)
- Tercet metafizyczny (2009)
References
edit- ^ European Salon website
- ^ Archive of the History of Philosophy website
- ^ "Skarga, Barbara". Traces Of War. Retrieved 2024-10-07.
- ^ Barbara Skarga Foundation, scholarship page