The book consists of two distinct parts. The first is introducing chapters, ranged according 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 philosophers3. 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 operations aimed against the academic community of the Jagiellonian University. The last text in this section - authored by the undersigned - 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.