page_title: Władysław Tatarkiewicz
section_title: Major works
hierarchical_section_title: Władysław Tatarkiewicz / Major works
caption_attribution_description: Polski: III Zjazd Filozofów w Krakowie. Grupa uczestników zjazdu. Stoją od lewej: profesor Zygmunt Zawirski, NN, profesor Witold Rubczyński, profesor Władysław Tatarkiewicz, profesor Tadeusz Garbowski, profesor Jan Łukasiewicz, profesor Tadeusz Czeżowski, sekretarz zjazdu profesor Marian Heitzman.
context_page_description: Władysław Tatarkiewicz was a Polish philosopher, historian of philosophy, historian of art, esthetician, and ethicist.
context_section_description: Tatarkiewicz belonged to the interwar Lwów–Warsaw school of logic, created by Kazimierz Twardowski, which gave reborn Poland many scholars and scientists:  philosophers, logicians, psychologists, sociologists, and organizers of academia.
  Tatarkiewicz educated generations of Polish philosophers, estheticians and art historians, as well as a multitude of interested laymen. He posthumously continues to do so through his History of Philosophy and numerous other works.
  In his final years, Tatarkiewicz devoted considerable attention to securing translations of his major works.  Of the below incomplete listing of his works, his 1909 German-language doctoral thesis, and his History of Philosophy, Łazienki warszawskie, Parerga, and Memoirs have not been translated into English.
  Die Disposition der aristotelischen Principien (German:  Aristotle's System of Concepts):  Tatarkiewicz's 1909 doctoral thesis, published 1910.  First Polish-language edition:  Układ pojęć w filozofii Arystotelesa (The System of Concepts in Aristotle's Philosophy), translated from the German by Izydora Dąmbska, Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978, 126 pp.
  History of Philosophy, three volumes  (Polish: Historia filozofii, vols. 1-2, 8th ed. 1978; vol. 3, 5th ed. 1978).
  History of Aesthetics, three volumes (vols. 1-2, 1970; vol. 3, 1974).  (Polish: Historia estetyki, vols. 1-2, 1962; vol. 3, 1967.)
  Analysis of Happiness, 1976, ISBN 90 247 1807 4. (Polish: O Szczęściu [On Happiness], 1962; 7th ed., 1979, ISBN 83-01-00114-3.)
  Łazienki warszawskie (Warsaw's Royal Baths Park), with photographs by Edmund Kupiecki, Warsaw, Wydawnictwo Arkady, 1968, 299 pp.  A study of the aesthetics of what Tatarkiewicz identified as the "style of [Poland's last king] Stanisław August", as manifested in the structures and grounds of Warsaw's Royal Baths Park.
  A History of Six [aesthetic] Ideas, 1980, ISBN 83-01-00824-5. (Polish: Dzieje sześciu pojęć, 2nd ed. 1976.)
  Parerga (By-Works), Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978, 141 pp.  Polish language.  Chapters:
  "Two Concepts of Beauty"
  "Two Concepts of Poetry"
  "Creation and Discovery"
  "The Concept of Value"
  "Civilization and Culture"
  "Art and Technology"
  "Integration of the Arts"
  "Photographs and Pictures"
  "Tragedy and the Tragic"
  "The Great and the Close"
  On Perfection (Polish: O doskonałości, 1976).  English translation by Christopher Kasparek was serialized in Dialectics and Humanism:  the Polish Philosophical Quarterly, vol. VI, no. 4 [autumn 1979] — vol. VIII, no. 2 [spring 1981].  Kasparek's translation has subsequently also appeared in the book:  Władysław Tatarkiewicz, On perfection, Warsaw University Press, Center of Universalism, 1992, pp. 9–51; the book is a collection of papers by and about the late Professor Tatarkiewicz.
  Memoirs (Polish: Wspomnienia, 1979).
caption: Tatarkiewicz (4th from the left), 3rd Philosophers' Conference, Kraków, September 1936
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