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"Marina G. Ogden offers a competitive and comprehensive look at the
prominent Russian thinker Lev Shestov. This valuable book, based on
archival sources, provides good historical background for Shestov's
investigations, which is very important for a better understanding
not only Russian religious thought but also Western philosophy of
the twentieth century." (Professor Teresa Obolevitch, The
Pontifical University of John Paul II, Krakow) "The pioneering
Russian existentialist Lev Shestov influenced Camus, Bataille,
Celan and many others. In this absorbing study, Marina G. Ogden
shows how his "parable" of the many-eyed Angel of Death anticipates
much recent thinking about trauma and its effects in setting a life
on a unique and sometimes creative path." (David M. Black, the
author of Why Things Matter: The Place of Values in Science,
Psychoanalysis and Religion) "Marina G. Ogden's Lev Shestov's Angel
of Death is a unique and invaluable contribution not only to the
scholarship on Shestov but also to a concern that is continues to
occupy anyone who has wrestled with the problematic relation
between life and meaning, between death and meaninglessness. Her
important book is at once deeply informed, profoundly wise, and
urgently needful." (David Patterson, Review in Studies in East
European Thought, March 2022) At the beginning of the twentieth
century the Russian emigre philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938)
challenged traditional philosophical norms and brought the
individual experience of the anxiety of death to the forefront of
philosophical investigation. Based on new research and translations
of Shestov's unpublished manuscripts, notes and correspondence,
this book analyses the thoughts of one of the most influential
thinkers of the past century in an interdisciplinary context. While
uncovering the roots of the philosopher's existential position, the
author traces Shestov's "wandering through souls" of the world's
most significant philosophers and writers within the context of a
historical and biographical narrative, offering a close reading of
his thinking in its chronological progression. A new interpretation
of Shestov's philosophy, this comparative and hermeneutical
analysis focuses on the thinker's continual search for meaning on
the question of human mortality. Bringing together up-to-date
research findings in Russian, English and French, an evolutionary
analysis of the key notions in Shestov's philosophy - the problems
of truth, revelation, faith and death - is carried out in
conjunction with the ideas of such pivotal figures in Western
culture as Fyodor Dostoevsky, William James, Edmund Husserl, Karl
Jaspers, Martin Buber and Sigmund Freud.
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