Max Dessoir ( German: Max Dessoir ; February 8, 1867 , Berlin - July 19, 1947 , Königstein , Germany) - German aesthetics and psychologist. Follower of V. Dilthey .
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Biography
He graduated from high school in 1881. Then he studied at the universities of Würzburg and Berlin. He had the title of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy (1889). Dessoir is the founder of a critical analysis of parapsychological phenomena. Since 1885, he began systematic observations of mediums. Based on these observations, he made general conclusions about the essence of these phenomena based on the concept of the subconscious. ("Vom Jenseits der Seele: Die Geheimwissenschaften in kritischer Betrachtung", 1917). Dessoir coined the term " parapsychology ." Since 1891, Dessoir began working as a privat-docent at the University of Berlin.
In 1893 he defended his thesis ("Psychologischen Skizzen"). Since 1897 he has been working as an extraordinary professor. And from 1920 to 1934 he worked as an ordinary professor at the University of Berlin.
After the war in 1947, he began to teach in Frankfurt .
He, together with E. Utits, founded the school of aesthetics . In his works, Dessoir understood aesthetics much more widely than art, including nature and everyday life in it.
Since 1906 he has been publishing the journal Zeitschrift fur Asthetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft. In 1913, on his initiative, the 1st International Congress of Aesthetics was organized.
Bibliography
- Max Dessoir . Aesthetics and the universal science of art (Asthetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft in Grundzuge, Stuttgart, 1906). Here he divided the arts into two types, the imitative arts, which have real forms (space and time of art), and the free arts, which have irrelevant forms (architecture or music).
- Max Dessoir . Essay on the history of psychology. SPb., 1912.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118524933 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Dessuar Max // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
Links
- Dessoir (Maxim Dessoir) // Psychological dictionary. THEM. Kondakov. 2000.