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 This book is the important element of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Roman Ingarden’s death in 2020. This half-century includes the earlier anniversa-ries of births and deaths, marked by occasional conferences and book publications. Perhaps the time has come to approach Ingarden in a different way, not through the many complex elements of his system, but through the features of his intellectual and emotional image that emerges from the memories of those around him. Maybe by reviving the very figure of this eminent Polish humanist, his philosophy will also once again come to live.The philosopher is depicted here through the recollections of his students who participated in his academic activities in the years 1957-1963. This is his second return to didactics in the post-war period, separated by a forced leave and a ban on teaching; the first period being the years 1945-1950. The introduction is not, however, the place to discuss the image of Ingarden emerging from the minds of his students. The reader can find this in further parts of the book including the memories of par-ticular individuals. It is worth to noting, however, that the details of this image are carried by Ingarden’s students both in their minds and in their hearts. The period of their studies was an important, intellectually and emotionally formative time. It is difficult to distinguish between these spheres of personality subjected to the influence of the great teacher and academic Ingarden was.The book consists of two distinct parts. The first is introducing chapters, ranged ac-cording to an age and the level of saturation with Ingarden’s ideology. The first chapter in this section – authored by Dominika Czakon and Natalia Anna Michna – is a more personal reflection on Ingarden from the point of view of the youngest generation of philosophers. For whom his thought is from a diff erent time and comes to life only occasionally. Next, an article by Monika Komaniecka-Łyp presents the history of Ingarden when he was under surveillance by the Security Service of the Polish People’s Republic, resulting from the opera tions aimed against the academic community of the Jagiellonian University. The last text in this section – authored by the editor – is of a biographical nature, where Ingarden is presented as a secondary school teacher and academic mentor. The second part of the book is a unique collection of memories of Ingarden’s two grandchildren, students, friends and associates.