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By Lev Shestov

For greater than thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable competition among Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov?—?an suggestion for the French existentialists and the most important interlocutor of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber in the course of the interwar years?—?makes the gripping war of words among those symbolic poles of old knowledge his philosophical testomony, an argumentative and stylistic travel de force.

Although the Russian-born Shestov is little identified within the Anglophone international this present day, his writings prompted many twentieth-century eu thinkers, comparable to Albert Camus, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov’s ultimate, groundbreaking paintings at the philosophy of faith from an existential viewpoint. This new, annotated variation of Bernard Martin’s vintage translation provides references to the brought up works in addition to glosses of passages from the unique Greek, Latin, German, and French. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov at his so much profound and so much eloquent and is the clearest expression of his inspiration that formed the evolution of continental philosophy and ecu literature within the 20th century.

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