Athens & Jerusalem

"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 interl...

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Subtitles:Athens and Jerusalem
Main Author: Šestov, Lev 1866-1938 (Author)
Contributors: Martin, Bernard 1928- (Translator) ; Fotiade, Ramona 1964- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Athens, Ohio Ohio University Press [2016]
In:Year: 2016
Edition:Second edition
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Greece (Antiquity) / Philosophy / Reason / Reception / Scholasticism
B Philosophy / Reason / Bible
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
Further subjects:B Religion Philosophy
B Philosophy and religion
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Summary:"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. "--
Item Description:Literaturangaben
ISBN:0821422197