Adam Schaff
| Adam Schaff | |
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| Born |
March 10, 1913 Lwów, Poland (now Lviv) |
| Died |
November 12, 2006 (aged 93) Warsaw, Poland |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater |
Lviv University Moscow State University |
| Awards | Order of Polonia Restituta |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Marxism |
Main interests | Epistemology |
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Adam Schaff (10 March 1913, Lwów – 12 November 2006, Warsaw) was a Polish Marxist philosopher.
Life
Of Jewish origin, Schaff was born in Lwów into a lawyer's family.[1] 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 ideologue of the Polish United Workers' Party for many years, but in 1981 he was expelled from the party. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Club of Rome.[2]
Works
- Word and Concept
- Language and Cognition
- Introduction to Semantic
- Problems of the Marxist Theory of Truth
- A Philosophy of Man
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