Stanisław Brzozowski (writer)

Stanisław Brzozowski ( born June 28, 1878 in Maziarnia in Chelm, † April 30, 1911 in Florence) was a Polish philosopher.

Brzozowski developed his philosophy largely under the influence of the philosophers Immanuel Kant and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, later Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and William James. His confrontation with the historical materialism led him Georges Sorel and Antonio Labriola close. A main concept of his philosophy was, starting from Marx that work.

Brzozowski died of tuberculosis, he incurred as a result of prolonged detention in a Tsarist prison for activities in the Polish Unabhängigkeitsbewegeung. 1908, the Russian writer Vladimir Burtsev suspected him publicly with collaboration with the Czarist Okhrana. The accusations were repeated in numerous publications of the labor movement. The Polish writer Karol Irzykowski, Ostap Ortwin and Waclaw Nalkowski defended Brzozowski and wrote a memorandum. Stanisław Przybyszewski also expressed solidarity with Brzozowski. The allegations remained unresolved, but accelerated the collapse of health Brozowskis.

Brzozowskis work influenced many Polish intellectuals such as Andrzej Trzebinski, Czeslaw Milosz and SI Witkiewicz.