Vasily Sesemann : Experience, Formalism, and the Question of Being.
Title:
Vasily Sesemann : Experience, Formalism, and the Question of Being.
Author:
Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.
ISBN:
9789401203524
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (148 pages)
Series:
On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, 7 ; v.7
On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, 7
Contents:
VASILY SESEMANN -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Sesemann's Life and Work -- Chapter 2 Neo-Kantianism, Formalism, and the Question of Being -- Chapter 3 New Approaches to the Psychic Subject: Sesemann, Bakhtin and Lacan -- Chapter 4 Intuition and Ontology in Sesemann and Bergson: Zeno's Paradox and the Being of Dream -- Appendix I Socrates and the Problem of Self-Knowledge (1925) -- Appendix II On the Nature of the Poetic Image (1925) -- Appendix III The Foundations of Politics (1927) -- Appendix IV A Letter by Henri Parland from Kaunas -- Appendix V Bibliography of Vasily Sesemann's Works -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
Abstract:
Born in Vyborg in 1884 by parents of German descent, Vasily (Wilhelm) Sesemann grew up and studied in St. Petersburg. A close friend of Viktor Zhirmunsky and Lev P. Karsavin, Sesemann taught from the early 1920s until his death in 1963 at the universities of Kaunas and Vilnius in Lithuania (interrupted only by his internment in a Siberian labor camp from 1950 to 1956). Botz-Bornstein's study takes up Sesemann's idea of "experience" as a dynamic, constantly self-reflective, "ungraspable" phenomenon that cannot be objectified. Through various studies, the author shows how Sesemann develops an outstanding idea of experience by reflecting it against empathy, Erkenntnistheorie (theory of knowledge), Formalism, Neo-Kantianism, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Bergson's philosophy. Sesemann's thought establishes a link between Formalist thoughts about "dynamics" and a concept of Being reminiscent of Heidegger. The book contains also translations of two essays by Sesemann as well as of an essay by Karsavin.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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