Athens & Jerusalem / Lev Shestov ; translated, with an introduction, by Bernard Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shestov, Lev, 1866-1938, author.

Contributor:

Martin, Bernard, 1928-1982, translator, writer of introduction.

Fotiade, Ramona, editor, writer of introduction.

Standardized Title:

Afiny i Ierusalim. English

Language:

English

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Philosophy and religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages)

Edition:

Second edition / edited, with a new introduction and annotations, by Ramona Fotiade.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"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, such as Albert Camus, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Czesaw Miosz, and Joseph Brodsky. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov's final, groundbreaking work on the philosophy of religion from an existential perspective. This new, annotated edition of Bernard Martin's classic translation adds references to the cited works as well as glosses of passages from the original Greek, Latin, German, and French. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov at his most profound and most eloquent and is the clearest expression of his thought that shaped the evolution of continental philosophy and European literature in the twentieth century. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction to the Second Edition

Prefatory Note

Introduction

Foreword

I Parmenides in Chains

II In the Bull of Phalaris

III On the Philosophy of the Middle Ages

IV On the Second Dimension of Thought

Lev Shestov-Biographical Timeline

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821445617

0821445618

OCLC:

1152324947