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ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
or,
"The Apotheosis of Groundlessness"
by Leon SHESTOV
BIOGRAPHICAL :
The author of this book, Leon
Shestov, whose original name was Lev Isaakovich Schwarzmann,
was born in Kiev in 1866. Even though he studied law at Moscow
University, he never came to practise it. From the late 1890's
he lived in St. Petersburg and by 1898 he had published his first
important work, 'Shakespeare and his Critic, Brandes'. He was
to continue writing books for the remainder of his life. In 1922
he emigrated to Berlin, though he later settled for good in Paris.
And although he gave occasional lectures in Berlin, Paris and
Amsterdam (and indeed made two lecture tours in Palestine) he
never held any official academic post. He died in 1938. His works
have been translated into many languages since and he has become
one of the most highly respected of world thinkers. He was held
in the highest admiration by Albert Camus who refers to him frequently.
OTHER WORKS :
1898 - Shakespeare and his Critic, Brandes
1900 - Good in the Teaching of Dostoevsky &
Nietzsche: Philosophy and Preaching
1903 - Dostoevsky and Nietzsche:
The Philosophy of Tragedy
1905 - The Apotheosis of Groundlessness:
An Essay in Undogmatic Thought
('All Things are Possible')
1908 - Beginnings and Ends
1912 - Great Vigils
1929 - In Job's Balances
1936 - Kierkegaard and
Existentialist Philosophy
1951 - Athens and Jerusalem
FEATURES :
Introductory Essay on the Life and Thought of Leon Shestov. A
Foreword by D.H.Lawrence on this work by Leon Shestov.
The Complete Text of this work, which comprises two Parts
- Part I (Fragmentary Life) and Part II
(For the Giddy-Free). Textual Annotations at the
close, some of them linguistic.
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