Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) - philosopher. Initially connected with the Lvovian, and later the Cracovian, academic milieu. Special interest: ontology. His views on the subject of art are contained in his two-volume work 'Spór o istnienie świata' (The Controversy over the Existence of the World, 1947, 1948; also in a German version, 'Der Streit um die Existenz der Welt, 1964, 1965). He was also interested in literature, and his major work on this subject was 'Das literarische Kuntswerk'(1957; On Literary Works). He also addressed other art-forms (an English translation of one of his books on the arts is 'The Ontology of the Work of Art: The Musical Work, the Picture, the Architectural Work, the Film' (1989). Yet other fields he studied were the theories of cognition and aesthetics, his earliest book published in this subject was 'Ueber die Stellung der Erkenntnistheorie im System der Philosophie' (1925).
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