
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1995
Pages: 90-119
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas
ISBN (Hardback): 9789401041034
Full citation:
, "After the Christianization of pyrrhonism", in: The Christianization of Pyrrhonism, Berlin, Springer, 1995


After the Christianization of pyrrhonism
Shestov's irrationalism
pp. 90-119
in: , The Christianization of Pyrrhonism, Berlin, Springer, 1995Abstract
Lev Shestov (1866–1938) is a Russian philosopher who strongly resisted the arrival, in particular through Kant and Neo-Kantianism, of Western European Enlightenment in Russia.1 Shestov's opposition to Kantian Enlightenment and Positivism was motivated mainly by the challenge to Judeo-Christianity posed by these philosophical movements. All of Shestov's writings are religiously motivated and in all of them he attempts to vindicate the legitimacy of non-rational religious experiences. Although Shestov is Jewish by birth, Luther is the only modern theologian with whom Shestov sympathizes (although this sympathy is not without serious qualifications). But because the only religious authority Shestov recognizes is the Bible (in particular the Old Testament), he does not claim affiliation with any institutional religion.2
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1995
Pages: 90-119
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas
ISBN (Hardback): 9789401041034
Full citation:
, "After the Christianization of pyrrhonism", in: The Christianization of Pyrrhonism, Berlin, Springer, 1995