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Athens and Jerusalem
Lev Shestov
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Description for Athens and Jerusalem
Paperback. For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). Editor(s): Fotiade, Ramona. Translator(s): Martin, Bernard. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov - an inspiration for the French existentialists and the foremost interlocutor of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber during the interwar years - makes the gripping confrontation between these symbolic poles of ancient wisdom his philosophical testament, an argumentative and stylistic tour de force. Although the Russian-born Shestov is little known in the Anglophone world today, his writings influenced many twentieth-century European thinkers, ... Read more
For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov - an inspiration for the French existentialists and the foremost interlocutor of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber during the interwar years - makes the gripping confrontation between these symbolic poles of ancient wisdom his philosophical testament, an argumentative and stylistic tour de force. Although the Russian-born Shestov is little known in the Anglophone world today, his writings influenced many twentieth-century European thinkers, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
553g
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821422205
SKU
V9780821422205
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About Lev Shestov
Lev Shestov (1866-1938) elaborated a radical critique of rationalist knowledge and ethics from the point of view of individual human existence. Best known for his groundbreaking comparative studies of Tolstoy and Nietzsche, and of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, Shestov defined his conception as the philosophy of tragedy, which opposed Greek speculative philosophy and biblical revelation. Ramona Fotiade is the ... Read more
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