Lev Shestov

Person · Open Library

Born

1866

Died

1938

Works

106

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

UA

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3

Total plays

19

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Thought and language.

   · 1962 · cited 6,753x

2. Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

   · 1997 · cited 6,175x

3. A ceRNA Hypothesis: The Rosetta Stone of a Hidden RNA Language?

   · 2011 · cited 5,964x

4. Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases

   · 1999 · cited 4,885x

5. Metabolic regulation of gene expression by histone lactylation

   · 2019 · cited 3,537x

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Quotes

• “What can be more terrible than not to know whether one is alive or dead? “Justice” should insist that this knowledge or this ignorance should be the prerogative of every human being. p. 3”
• “Suppose Euripides is right, and that indeed no one can be sure whether life is not death and death life; can this truth ever become certain? If all men daily repeated Euripides’ words when they got up and when they went to bed, they would remain as strange and as problematic as on the day when the poet first heard them in the depths of his soul. P. 6”
• “There are no ideals exalting the soul, but only chains, invisible indeed, but binding man more securely than iron. And no act of heroism, no “good work” can open the doors to man’s “perpetual confinement”. Dostoievsky’s barrack vows of “improvement” now appeared to him as a sacrilege. He experience which he underwent was much the same as Luther’s when he remembered with such unfeigned horror and disgust the vows which he had pronounced on entering the convent. P. 10”
• “Plato, too, knew the “underground”, but her called it a “cave” and created his splendid world-famous myth in which men were likened to prisoners in a cave. But he did it in such a way that no one thought of calling Plato’s cave “underground” nor calling Plato himself a sickly, abnormal being, one of those for whom normal men have to invent theories, treatments, etc. p. 13”
• “When he was in the settlement Dostoievsky was already especially attracted by these resolute men whom no obstacle could turn from their purpose. He tried by every means in his power to understand their psychology, but he did not succeed. P. 19”
• “Directly Kant hears the word “law” pronounced he takes his hat off; he neither wishes nor dares to dispute. He who says “law” says “power”; he who says “power” says “submission” – for man’s supreme virtue is to submit himself. P. 23”

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Key facts

Born

Yeguda Lev Shvartsman , ( 1866-02-05 ) February 5, 1866, Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire , (now Kyiv , Ukraine )

Died

November 19, 1938 (1938-11-19) (aged 72), Paris , France

Era

20th-century philosophy

Region

Russian philosophy , Western philosophy

School

Christian existentialism

Main interests

Theology , nihilism

Notable ideas

Despair as "the penultimate word"

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