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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, Czesław
Miłosz, 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.
Lev Shestov’s By Faith Alone confronts Eastern and Western
European conceptions of faith through Russian literature, ancient
and medieval philosophy, and Christian theology. Written from
1910-1914, this first English-language translation brings together
important early writings on the medieval church and Martin Luther.
Shestov reconciles the Greek notion of rational truth with Biblical
revelation by drawing on a wide range of ancient, medieval,
philosophical and theological sources from Plato to Hegel,
Tertullian to Saint Augustine , and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to
William of Ockam. He argues that rational truth has skewed
Christian belief by determining knowledge and truth in ways that
prize the mind over the world. This approach marks a turning point
in the evolution of Shestov’s existential thought. It establishes
a basic division that became central to Shestov’s later work,
between Athens as reason and Jerusalem as faith. By Faith Alone
provides a crucial piece of the puzzle in the genesis of
Shestov’s later and better-known writings on medieval philosophy.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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, Czesław
Miłosz, 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.
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