SELECTED WRITINGS (2nd, expanded edition)

In a unique collection of essays and poems written in English, French, German and Russian (with a seasoning of Greek and Japanese), Constantine Shapiro explores fascinating universal questions and connections. Why, he asks, do so many people feel unhappy? Why do so many go to the doctor? Why is there so much criminality? Why is there international unrest? What is a healthy soul? In his investigation of these and other "Big Questions," the author examines such disparate areas as Japanese kanji ideograms and personal character, spiritual ontology and science, Zeus and Christianity, objectivity and subjectivity in time and space, the nature of experience, and the flow of consciousness. The modern reader will find much to ponder in this second, expanded edition of Selected Writings. Also included are facsimiles of the typescript of Two Mathematical Problems and the Japanese translation of Transzendentale Musiklehre.

Author: Michael Shapiro,Constantine Shapiro
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Published: 02/21/2008
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9781419685774

About the Author
Constantine Shapiro was born in Saratov, Russia, into a family that included the distinguished philologists, Viktor Zhirmunsky and Yury Tynianov. After graduating from the Medvednikov Gymnasium in Moscow in 1914, he matriculated at the Law Faculty of Moscow University where he studied with I. A. Il'in, a direct continuator of the Russian philosophical tradition of Vladimir Solovyov and SergeyTrubetskoy. His studies were interrupted by the Revolution; he emigrated to Germany in 1919, first to Freiburg, where he studied philosophy at the University under Edmund Husserl, then Leipzig, where he received a certificate in cello from Julius Klengel. Until his departure from Germany for France and Palestine in 1926, he was first cellist with the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra. In 1928 he settled in Japan, where he remained through the Second World War, and immigrated to the United States in 1952. He died in 1992 in his ninety-sixth year.

This title is not returnable