The series "Polish Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophical Humanities" presents a wide and relevant overview of Polish works in philosophy and philosophical parts of the major fields of the humanities: political and social sciences, history, religious studies or what is named in Poland "the history of ideas". The series is open to all streams of Polish philosophy: from analytical philosophy through phenomenology and hermeneutics to existential or religious philosophies.

This is the complete and critical translation into English of by the Polish phenomenologist Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), student and critic of Husserl. Volume I of his three-volume offers a fundamental ontological analysis of the modes of being of various types of objects.