Chekhov And Other Essays
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Anton Tchekhov, and Other Essays
Author | : Lev Shestov |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2022-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Chekhov
Author | : Lev Shestov |
Publisher | : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"Leon Shestov was a Russian-Jewish intellectual of the Silver Age of Russian culture who believed in the irrational, the divine, the overwhelming insight. As a philosopher, he stood firmly against the encroachment of rationalism and science. As a literary critic, he was unique in his quest for the experience behind artistic creation. In this book Shestov offers brilliant, witty insights into Chekhov, Dostoevski, Ibsen, Tolstoi, Hegel, Kant, Nietzsche, and many other writers and philosophers.
Views from the Other Shore
Author | : Aileen M. Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-09-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780300194623 |
In this brilliant companion volume to her highly praised Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance, Aileen M. Kelly closely examines a humanist strand of Russian thought that has until now received little notice or understanding. She finds in the writings of Aleksandr Herzen, Anton Chekhov, and Mikhail Bakhtin a pioneering emphasis on the role of chance and contingency in nature and history. Their writing on this theme, she argues, establishes the importance of these humanists in the development of European thought. Herzen, the principal subject of the book, was among the first nineteenth-century thinkers to challenge the assumptions underlying doctrines of universal progress. Kelly links Herzen’s outlook to the work of such Western humanists and scientists as Francis Bacon, Schiller, Proudhon, J. S. Mill, and Darwin. She shows how the view of freedom that Herzen shared with Chekhov and Bakhtin provides an antidote both to traditional absolutes and to the boundless relativism of much postmodern theory. As such it offers an answer to the question now besetting intellectuals in Russia and the West: how to ground morality after the collapse of ideological certainties.
Chekhov and Other Essays (Illustrated)
Author | : Lev Shestov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2018-03-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781980637202 |
Although little known in the English-speaking world, Lev Shestov was a highly regarded philosopher who influenced some of the most pivotal figures of the 20th century including Nikolai Berdyaev and Sergei Bulgakov in Russia, George Bataille, Jules de Gaultier, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl and Albert Camus in France, and D. H. Lawrence and John Middleton Murry in England. Shestov was deeply interested in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Soren Kierkegaard. Emil Cioran wrote about Shestov; "He was the philosopher of my generation, which didn't succeed in realizing itself spiritually, but remained nostalgic about such a realization. Shestov [...] has played an important role in my life. [...] He thought rightly that the true problems escape the philosophers. What else do they do but obscuring the real torments of life?" As an existentialist, Shestov was known for his "Philosophy of Despair". His work is often fragmentary, and he maintained that no one system could solve the mysteries of life. Rather than a theory or idea, he expounded the experience of despair which he described as a loss of certainties, loss of freedom, and even a loss of the meaning of life. But through this, Shestov attempts to break beyond despair to a place that he refers to as "Faith", which derives from the deepest place of insecurity and doubt. This updated edition includes a collection of selected quotes by Shestov, as well as multiple images of Shestov and his contemporaries. Also included is an active table of contents for convenient reference.
The Unknown Chekhov
Author | : Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1999-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0374526745 |
From the introduction to The Unknown Chekhov: At least a dozen years were to pass [after Anton Chekhov’s first short story published in English] before his tales began to gain some attention in the English-speaking world. ... [And yet] when work on the present collection was begun, scores of stories were still inaccessible in English, some of them comparable to those that have become a part of the literary heritage of the west. ... At the start of his career [Chekhov] turned out a great deal of copy for the comic papers [that] evidenced a genuine sense of fun, a satiric verve, an eye for revealing details of appearance and behavior, an ear for living speech, signs of that “talent for humanity,” compacted of understanding and compassion, which is Chekhov’s signature. ... From the first, the youthful humorist tried his hand at journalism... These breezy, gossipy, often biting paragraphs—he did not flinch from muckraking—touched on everything, from the unsanitary condition of the tenements to women’s fashions. ... Wholly unknown [in English] were Chekhov’s journalistic writings, as well as his book on the island of Sakhalin and its penal colony. The reader is offered here a selection from all of this material.
Views from the Other Shore
Author | : Aileen Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780300074864 |
"She shows how the view of freedom that Herzen shared with Chekhov and Bakhtin provides an antidote both to traditional absolutes and to the boundless relativism of much postmodern theory. As such it offers an answer to the question now besetting intellectuals in Russia and the West: how to ground morality after the collapse of ideological certainties."--Jacket.
Chekhov, and Other Essays. New Introd. by Sidney Monas
Author | : Lev Shestov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 |
ISBN | : |