Marek Siemek

Marek Siemek
Born	27 November 1942 Kraków, Poland
Died	30 May 2011 (age 68) Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Occupation(s)	Professor and director of Department of Social Philosophy at University of Warsaw
Employer	University of Warsaw
Known for	Philosopher and historian of German Transcendental Philosophy at the University of Warsaw
Children	Maksymilian Strzelecki

Marek Jan Siemek (November 27, 1942 – May 30, 2011) was a Polish philosopher and historian of German transcendental philosophy (German idealism). He was a professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw and the director of its Department of Social Philosophy.

Marek Siemek was a disciple of Bronisław Baczko, one of the main representatives of the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas. In his early works Siemek interprets marxism as a form of transcendental philosophy. In his later works ha abandons Marxism for hegelianism interpreted as transcendental social philosophy.

From 1986 member of International Advisory Committee of The Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft. Fellow of Collegium Invisibile. On 10 February 2006 he received doctorate honoris causa of the University of Bonn.

Marek Siemek had one son, currently residing in the United States.

Main publications

• Fryderyk Schiller, Warszawa, Wiedza Powszechna, 1970
• Idea transcendentalizmu u Fichtego i Kanta, Warszawa, PWN, 1977
• Filozofia, dialektyka, rzeczywistość, Warszawa, PIW, 1982
• W kręgu filozofów, Warszawa, Czytelnik, 1984
• Filozofia spełnionej nowoczesności - Hegel, Wykłady Kopernikańskie w Humanistyce, vol. 2, Toruń, Wydawnictwo UMK, 1995.
• Hegel i filozofia, Warszawa, Oficyna Naukowa, 1998
• Vernunft und Intersubjektivität. Zur philosophisch-politischen Identität der europäischen Moderne, Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000
• Wolność, rozum, intersubiektywność, Warszawa, Oficyna Naukowa, 2002

Translations

• "Prawdy szukamy obaj". Z korespondencji między Goethem i Schillerem, with Jerzy Prokopiuk, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1974 (translation of the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller)
• Martin Heidegger, Nauka i namysł; Przezwyciężenie metafizyki, in: Martin Heidegger, Budować, mieszkać, myśleć. Eseje wybrane, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1977
• György Lukács, Młody Hegel. O powiązaniach dialektyki z ekonomią, BKF, PWN, Warszawa 1980
• György Lukács, Historia i świadomość klasowa., BWF, PWN, Warszawa 1988.
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Życie Jezusa, in: Zygmunt Freud, Mojżesz i monoteizm, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1995.
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Teoria Wiedzy. Wybór pism, vol. 1, BKF, PWN, Warszawa 1996

External links

• Marek Siemek's page at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw
• Stanisław Gromadzki, Marcin Miłkowski, Wstęp (Introduction) to the philosophical journal Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki 1(16)/2007