Russian Jewish thinker and literary critic Lev Shestov (Lev Isaakovich Schwarzmann; 1866-1938) was obsessed with what he considered to be the inevitable struggle between religious faith and reason. An irrationalist and fideist, this Nietzschelike...

Shestov, Lev Isaakovich(1866–1938) Lev Isaakovich Shestov, the Russian philosopher and religious thinker, was born in Kiev. His real name was Lev Isaakovich Schwarzmann. Shestov studied law at Moscow University but never practiced it. He lived...

Shestov, Lev Isaakovich [addendum] Shestov has become the object of academic philosophical attention only since 1968. After the 1917 Russian Revolution Shestov became a significant voice in European philosophical existentialism, in his later life...

Lev Isaakovich Shestov (Russian: Лев Исаакович Шестов), born Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann (Russian: Иегуда Лейб Шварцман)) was a Ukrainian/Russian - Jewish existentialist philosopher. Born in Kiev (Russian Empire) on...

Recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in literature, Lithuanian-born Milosz is known for his contributions to the development of Polish poetry. In the following essay, originally published in the journal Tri-Quarterly in 1973, Milosz examines the defining characteristics of Shestov's work, and compares him to other philosophers and literary critics, in particular Kierkegaard and Simone Weil.

Gascoyne is an English poet, translator, critic, memoirist, dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and editor. In the following essay, he explicates basic tenets of Shestov's thought, comparing and contrasting his unique form of existentialism with that of Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Sartre.

In the following essay, Patterson examines Shestov's use of biblical imagery and discusses his interpretations of the fiction of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche in his In Job's Balances.