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
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:On the boundary of two worlds ; 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (148 p.)
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Table of 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