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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451756003321

Autore

Botz-Bornstein Thorsten

Titolo

Vasily Sesemann [[electronic resource] ] : experience, formalism, and the question of being / / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ; preface by Eero Tarasti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2006

ISBN

94-012-0352-0

1-4294-5701-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Collana

On the boundary of two worlds: identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics ; ; 7

Altri autori (Persone)

SezemanasVosylius <1884-1963.>

Disciplina

197

Soggetti

Experience

Philosophy, Lithuanian - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-128) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 1920's 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