Vasily Sesemann : experience, formalism, and the question of being / / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ; preface by Eero Tarasti.
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 (in...
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| Superior document: | On the boundary of two worlds: identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics ; 7 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | On the boundary of two worlds ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (148 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | 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 |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-128) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9401203520 1429457015 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ; preface by Eero Tarasti. |