Barbara Skarga

Barbara Skarga
Skarga in 2000
Born	25 October 1919 Warsaw, Poland
Died	18 September 2009(2009-09-18) (aged 89) Olsztyn, Poland
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Philosophy of dialogue
Main interests	Epistemology, humanity, ontology, ethics

Barbara Skarga (25 October 1919 – 18 September 2009) was a Polish philosophy historian and philosopher who worked mainly in ethics and epistemology.

Skarga was born in 1919 at Warsaw to a Calvinist family with gentry roots. Her sister was actress Hanna Skarżanka and brother was Edward Skarga.

Skarga studied philosophy at Wilno University. During World War II, she was a member of the resistance movement Armia Krajowa. In 1944 the Soviet NKVD arrested and sentenced her to ten years at the katorga. Afterwards, she was forced to live at a collective farm. After the war she wrote an anonymous memoir about her time in the gulag.^[1]

She returned to Poland in 1955^[2] and graduated in 1957 with a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Warsaw. In 1988 she became a full professor of philosophy.

Skarga was an editor-in-chief of Etyka. In 1995, she was awarded Order of the White Eagle.

Skarga died on 18 September 2009 in Olsztyn, and was buried in Warsaw.^[3]

In 2022, the Barbara Skarga Foundation is based in Warsaw and offers a scholarship to unpublished philosophers.^[4]

• Narodziny pozytywizmu polskiego 1831-1864 (1964)
• Kłopoty intelektu. Między Comte'em a Bergsonem (1975)
• Czas i trwanie. Studia nad Bergsonem (1982)
• Po wyzwoleniu 1944-1956 (1985)
• Przeszłość i interpretacje (1987)
• Granice historyczności (1989)
• Tożsamość i różnica. Eseje metafizyczne (1997)
• Ślad i obecność (2002)
• Kwintet metafizyczny (2005)
• Człowiek to nie jest piękne zwierzę (2007)
• Tercet metafizyczny (2009)

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