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Vasily Sesemann : experience, formalism, and the question of being /

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 (interrup...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten
Other Authors: Sezemanas, Vosylius, 1884-1963
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Series:On the boundary of two worlds ; 7.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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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 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 Ses
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 133 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-128) and indexes.
ISBN:9781429457019
1429457015
904202092X
9789042020924