From the Unfathomable to Realization of Human Existence: S. Frank’s Marginalia in the L. Binswanger’s Book

Abstract

Сorrespondence between Russian philosopher Sеmyon Frank (1877–1950) and Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Ludwig Binswanger (1881–1966) and its particular refl ection in Frank’s marginalia on Binswanger’s book “Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins” (“Basic Forms and the Realization of Human "Being-in-the-World"”, 1942) indicates a signifi cant infl uence of Frank’s philosophical ideas on Ludwig Binswanger
as a psychologist, despite the general diff erences and divergences in their ideas. Being one of the most notable contemporaries of the correspondents, Martin Heidegger also gets into focus of particular attention as he oft en becomes a subject of the Frank’s marginalia.