Adam Schaff
Born	(1913-03-10)March 10, 1913 Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine)
Died	November 12, 2006(2006-11-12) (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

Adam Schaff (10 March 1913 – 12 November 2006) was a Polish Marxist philosopher.

Life

Of Jewish origin, Schaff was born in Lemberg (Lwow, Lviv) 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, especially during its Stalinist period.

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 Semantics
• Problems of the Marxist Theory of Truth
• A Philosophy of Man

Several of Schaff's works were translated into German by Witold Leder.^[3]

External links

• Adam Schaff (1913-2006) - Necrology

See also

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• History of philosophy in Poland
• Marxism

References