Review of Vasily Sesemann’s The Logical Laws and Being
Abstract
This book is the continuation of two older works from 1927, which were published under the common title “Studien zum Erkenntnisproblem. Teil 1. Über gegenständliches und ungegenständliches Wissen; Teil II. Rationales und Irrationales” [“Study of the Problem of Cognition. Part I. On Objective and Non-objective Knowledge; Part II. Rational and Irrational”]. With both of these previous works, which together are almost the same length as this new essay, the latter is so strongly related that the unity of the whole is easily noticed in the parts. Regrettably, these three parts did not appear together as one book. This is even more unfortunate because, while there is certainly an interest in such works in the circle of German professionals, it is difficult for a series of publications by a foreign university with predominantly foreign-language contributions to make it on the German book market. I feel for these reasons even more that it is my duty to draw the attention of professional philosophers to this significant and, in some respects, unique work.
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