Marek Siemek


Marek Jan Siemek was a Polish philosopher and historian of German transcendental philosophy. 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 he 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, 1970Idea transcendentalizmu u Fichtego i Kanta, Warszawa, PWN, 1977Filozofia, dialektyka, rzeczywistość, Warszawa, PIW, 1982W kręgu filozofów, Warszawa, Czytelnik, 1984Filozofia spełnionej nowoczesności - Hegel, Wykłady Kopernikańskie w Humanistyce, vol. 2, Toruń, Wydawnictwo UMK, 1995.Hegel i filozofia, Warszawa, Oficyna Naukowa, 1998Vernunft und Intersubjektivität. Zur philosophisch-politischen Identität der europäischen Moderne, Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000Wolność, rozum, intersubiektywność, Warszawa, Oficyna Naukowa, 2002

Translations

"Prawdy szukamy obaj". Z korespondencji między Goethem i Schillerem, with Jerzy Prokopiuk, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1974