Adam Schaff (10 March 1913 – 12 November 2006) was a Polish people Marxist philosopher.
Life
Of
Jews origin, Schaff was born in
Lemberg (Lwow, Lviv) 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
ideology of the Polish United Workers' Party, especially during its Stalinist period.
He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Club of Rome.[Marxists.org Glossary of People http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/s/c.htm]
Works
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Word and Concept
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Language and Cognition
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Introduction to Semantics
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Problems of the Marxist Theory of Truth
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A Philosophy of Man
Several of Schaff's works were translated into German by
Witold Leder.
External links
See also
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History of philosophy in Poland
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Marxism
