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Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche » Read Now
by Lev Shestov, Spencer Roberts, Bernard Martin. 322 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...DOSTOEVSKY, TOLSTOY AND NIETZSCHE Lev Shestov The Good in the Teaching of...Preaching , was published by Lev Shestov in 1900, when he was thirty...Philosophy and Preaching...
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Russian Thought after Communism: The Recovery of a Philosophical Heritage (Chap. 7 "Lev Shestov and the Revival of Religious Thought in Russia") » Read Now
by James P. Scanlan. 238 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Reclaimed 147 7. Lev Shestov and the Revival of Religious Thought...Vladimir Solovev, Nikolai Berdiaev, Lev Shestov, and a host of other independently...postcommunist...
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Encyclopedia of the Essay ("Shestov, Lev: Russian, 1866-1938" begins on p. 768) » Read Now
by Tracy Chevalier. 1028 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Encyclopedia of the Essay is the first reference work entirely devoted to the essay as a genre.
Coverage begins with Montaigne, the first essayist, and stretches forward to Addison and Steele, The Spectator and The Tatler, Marivaux, William Hazlitt, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Robert Musil, Theodor...
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The Encyclopedia of the Essay is the first reference work entirely devoted to the essay as a genre.
Coverage begins with Montaigne, the first essayist, and stretches forward to Addison and Steele, The Spectator and The Tatler, Marivaux, William Hazlitt, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Robert Musil, Theodor Adorno, Nouvelle Revue francaise, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and across the ocean to Emerson and Thoreau, E.B. White, The New Yorker and Harper's, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion -- while also looking back to classical and medieval precursors.
More than 400 writers from around the world are included, along with geographic surveys that provide an historical framework, entries on types of essays, and entries on important single essays. Entries on closely-related genres such as letters, journals, treatises, sermons and reviews expand and explore the fluid boundaries of the essay as genre.
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The Rise of Eurocentrism: Anatomy of Interpretation (Discussion of Lev Shestov begins on p. 220) » Read Now
by Vassilis Lambropoulos. 471 pgs.

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In the controversy over political correctness, the canon, and the curriculum, the role of Western tradition in a post-modern world is often debated. To clarify what is at stake, Vassilis Lambropoulos traces the ideology of European culture from the Reformation, focusing on a key element of Western...
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In the controversy over political correctness, the canon, and the curriculum, the role of Western tradition in a post-modern world is often debated. To clarify what is at stake, Vassilis Lambropoulos traces the ideology of European culture from the Reformation, focusing on a key element of Western tradition: the act of interpretation as a distinct practice of understanding and a civil right. Championed by Protestants insisting on independent interpretation of scripture, this ideal of autonomy ushered in the era of modernity with its essentialist philosophy of universal man and his aesthetic understanding of the world. After explaining the dominance of European culture through the combined archetypes of Hebraism (reason and morality) and Hellenism (spirit and art), Lambropoulos shows how the rule of autonomy has been transformed into the aesthetic, disinterested contemplation of things in themselves. Arguing that it is time to restore the socio-political dimension to the movement of autonomy, he proposes that a genealogy of the Hebraic-Hellenic archetypes can help us evaluate more recent models--like the Afrocentric one--and redefine t
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Eros of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis in Russia (Discussion of Lev Shestov begins on p. 74) » Read Now
by Alexander Etkind, Noah, Maria Rubins. 420 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Marxism was not the only Western idea to influence the course of Russian history. In the early decades of this century, psychoanalysis was one of the most important components of Russian intellectual life. But until Alexander Etkind's Eros of the Impossible, the hidden history of Russian involvement...
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Marxism was not the only Western idea to influence the course of Russian history. In the early decades of this century, psychoanalysis was one of the most important components of Russian intellectual life. But until Alexander Etkind's Eros of the Impossible, the hidden history of Russian involvement in psychoanalysis has gone largely unnoticed & untold.
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Subjectivity: Marxism and "The Spiritual" in China since Mao, in Philosophy East & West (Discussion of Lev Shestov begins on p. 636) » Read Now
by Lin Tongqi. 38 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...philosophy of the Russian thinker, Lev Shestov. Significantly, the title of the...There are reasons to believe that Shestovs road to Christianity is reflected...and social...