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Anton Tchekhov, and Other Essays
Author | : Lev Shestov |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2019-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Lev Shestov's 'Anton Tchekhov and Other Essays' explores the connection between philosophy and life through the lens of great Russian writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Tchekhov. Shestov argues that these writers approached the fundamental problem of all philosophy—whether life is worth living—with fearlessness and devotion. Despite their failure to find a definitive answer, they accepted and loved all human potentialities and strived to find a place for them in a pattern in which none should be distorted.
University of Michigan Official Publication
Author | : |
Publisher | : UM Libraries |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : |
Lev Shestov
Author | : Matthew Beaumont |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2020-09-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1350151173 |
The Jewish philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938) is perhaps the great forgotten thinker of the twentieth century, but one whose revival seems timely and urgent in the twenty-first century. An important influence on Georges Bataille, Albert Camus, Gilles Deleuze and many others, Shestov developed a fascinating anti-Enlightenment philosophy that critiqued the limits of reason and triumphantly affirmed an ethics of hope in the face of hopelessness. In a wide-ranging reappraisal of his life and thought, which explores his ideas in relation to the history of literature and painting as well as philosophy, Matthew Beaumont restores Shestov to prominence as a thinker for turbulent times. In reconstructing Shestov's thought and asserting its continued relevance, the book's central theme is wakefulness. It argues that for Shestov, escape from the limits of rationalist Enlightenment thought comes from maintaining an insomniac vigilance in the face of the spiritual night to which his century appeared condemned. Shestov's engagement with the image of Christ remaining awake in the Garden of Gethsemane then, is at the core of his inspiring understanding of our ethical responsibilities after the horrors of the twentieth century.
Rewriting the Jew
Author | : Gabriella Safran |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804764433 |
In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians furiously debated the "Jewish Question," more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature. This book examines stories about Jewish assimilation by four authors: Grigory Bogrov, a Russian Jew; Eliza Orzeszkowa, a Polish Catholic; and Nikolai Leskov and Anton Chekhov, both Eastern Orthodox Russians. Safran introduces the English-language reader to works that were much discussed in their own time, and she situates Jewish and non-Jewish writers together in the context they shared. For nineteenth-century writers and readers, successful fictional characters were "types," literary creations that both mirrored and influenced the trajectories of real lives. Stories about Jewish assimilators and converts often juxtaposed two contrasting types: the sincere reformer or true convert who has experienced a complete transformation, and the secret recidivist or false convert whose real loyalties will never change. As Safran shows, writers borrowed these types from many sources, including the novel of education produced by the Jewish enlightenment movement (the Haskalah), the political rhetoric of "Positivist" Polish nationalism, the Bible, Shakespeare, and Slavic folk beliefs. Rewriting the Jew casts new light on the concept of type itself and on the question of whether literature can transfigure readers. The classic story of Jewish assimilation describes readers who redesign themselves after the model of fictional characters in secular texts. The writers studied here, though, examine attempts at Jewish self-transformation while wondering about the reformability of personality. In looking at their works, Safran relates the modern Eastern European Jewish experience to a fundamental question of aesthetics: Can art change us?