Understanding of Intersubjectivity and Life in Theodors Celms Philosophical Works :: Philosophy Philosophical Essays

Understanding of Intersubjectivity and Life in Theodors Celms Philosophical workingsABSTRACT Theodors Celms (1893-1989), a prominent Latvian philosopher, was one of Husserls best students. Intersubjectivity was an Copernican theme in the psychological reading of phenomenology when Celm turned to the problem of the dark I and to a living-rather than logically defined-subject. Celms concluded that Husserls phenomenology could not address the interrogative sentence of intersubjectivity because in the course of its development it merely substituted pluralistic solipsism for monistic solipsism. What is intimately essential in phenomenology-the process of sense (or meaning) formation-rebrinys hardly noticed in Celms work. Contemporary phenomenology has developed as a philosophy of new thinking-a phenomenology of deportment that can be applied in different guidances toward settlement various problems of intersubjectivity. Professor Theodors Celms (1893-1989) was the most prominent L atvian philosopher. He has produce significant philosophical works in Latvian and German. His philosophical hereditary pattern is Der phnomenologische Idealismus Husserls, Riga, 1928 Vom Wesen der Philosophie, Regensburg, 1930 Lebensumgebung und Lebensprojektion, Leipzig, 1933 Subjekt und Subjektivierung. Studien ber das subjektive Sein, Riga, 1943. All these works are re published now in Germany, under the title Der phnomenologische Idealismus Husserls and andere Schriften, Verlag Peter Lang, 1993. In 1922-1925 Celms went to Germany and took up courses in philosophy conducted by Rickert and Husserl. Husserl recognised him as one of the best pupils in phenomenology. At the University of Freiburg he obtained the doctoral degree in philosophy. Later he became a research assistant in the Deutsche Literaturzeitung fr Kritik der internationalen Wissenschaft. His main philosophical book on Husserl was translated in Spain, Madrid, 1931. This work has not muddled significance up to this day. Garland in New Your in 1979 recognized it as important but no longer available book. Celms became famous as one of the deepest critics of Husserls transcendental phenomenology, who tried to find a way out of the phenomenological discrepancies.In the thirties Celms wrote reviews in German on M. Heideggers and M.Schelers philosophies and published volumes in Latvian Tagadnes problmas (The Problems of Today), Riga, 1934, and Patiesba un itums (Truth and Appearance), Riga, 1939 as well as smash articles in papers, magazines and encyclopaedias. The themes of Man, subject, life, consciousness, culture, society occupy a most prominent institutionalize in T.Celms philosophical articles and lectures in the University of Latvia. At the end of the Second creation War Celms emigrated to Germany, then moved to the USA (1949).