Lev Šestov: ‘Duality’ in Life and Thought at the Time of the Rift of the Socio-cultural Paradigm

Russian-Jewish religious thinker Lev Šestov (1866-1938) is often regarded as a precursor of European existentialism. At the same time, his “philosophy of tragedy” is also assigned to Irrationalism, and Albert Camus characterised Šestov as a “new man of the Absurd”. Since perestrojka, Šestov’s writi...

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Main Author: Olga Tabachnikova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2019-04-01
Series:Studi Slavistici
Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ss/article/view/2042