Lev Shestov

Lev Isaakovich Shestov (??? ????????? ??????), born Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann (?????? ???? ????????)) was a Russian - Jewish existentialist philosopher. Born in Kiev (Russian Empire) on January 31 (February 13) 1866, he emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the Bolshevik revolution. He lived in Paris until his death on November 19 1938.

Main Works

These are Shestovs most important works, in their English translations, and with their date of writing:

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• The Good in the Teaching of Tolstoy and Nietzsche, 1899
• The Philosophy of Tragedy, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, 1903
• All Things are Possible, 1905
• Potestas Clavium, 1915
• In Job's Balances, 1923-29
• Kierkegaard and the Existential Philosophy, 1933-34
• Athens and Jerusalem, 1930-37