Sergius Hessen
1887-1950
(also Sergej Gessen), prominent Russian philosopher. Studied in Heidelberg and Freiburg with Windelband and Rickert, whose work he also translated into Russian. Tought at the University of Tomsk (Siberia) until 1921, then he emigrated to Czechslovakia. Rector of the Russian pedagogical high school teacher in Prague, visiting professor at a number of Western European universities, foreign member of King's College in London, member of the journal Logos. From the early 30s he worked at the German University in Prague where, as a vigorous opponent of neo-positivism, he led extensive discussions with Rudolf Carnap. Moved to Poland in 1936, first becoming professor at the Free University in Warsaw and later, in 1945, professor at the University of Lodz. His philosophy can be broadly described as uniting (neo-kantian) transcendentalism with dialetics.
Articles
X(1930). Der Zusammenbruch des Utopismus. Der russische Gedanke, Erg. (1), 107-120.
(1929). Die Entwicklung der Physik Galileis und ihr Verhältnis zum physikalischen System von Aristoteles. Logos. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie der Kultur, 18, 339-361.
(1915). Die Philosophie der Strafe. Logos. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie der Kultur, 5, 173-218.
(1929). Die Tragödie des Guten in “Brüder Karamasoff”: Versuch einer Darstellung der Ethik Dostojewskis. Der russische Gedanke, 1 (1), 63-80.
(1925). Evrazijstvo. Sovremennye zapiski, 25, 494-508.
(1932). Ideja social'nogo prava. Sovremennye zapiski, 49, 421-435.
(1935). Mirovozrenie i ideologija. Sovremennye zapiski, 57, 316-329.
(1912). Mystik und Metaphysik. Logos. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie der Kultur, 2, 93-113.
(1924). Problema pravovogo socializma I: Evoljucija liberalizma. Sovremennye zapiski, 22, 257-293.
(1925). Problema pravovogo socializma II: Evoljucija liberalizma. Sovremennye zapiski, 23, 313-342.
(1926). Problema pravovogo socializma III: Evoljucija liberalizma. Sovremennye zapiski, 27, 382-430.
(1926). Problema pravovogo socializma IV: Evoljucija liberalizma. Sovremennye zapiski, 28, 299-345.
(1926). Problema pravovogo socializma V: Evoljucija liberalizma. Sovremennye zapiski, 29, 308-342.
(1927). Problema pravovogo socializma VI: Evoljucija liberalizma. Sovremennye zapiski, 30, 380-409.
(1927). Problema pravovogo socializma VII: Evoljucija liberalizma. Sovremennye zapiski, 31, 328-358.
(2012). Sovremennaja demokracija. Kantovskij sbornik, 1 (39), 75-84.
(1930). Tolstoi als Denker. Logos. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie der Kultur, 19, 145-172.
with Jakovenko Boris Valentinovič, Stepun Fedor (1910-1911). Über die gegenwartige Lage der Philosophie in Russland: Aus der Einführung in die russische Logosausgabe. Logos. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie der Kultur, 1, 151-158.