PHILOSOPHER

Lev Shestov

1866 - 1938

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Lev Isaakovich Shestov (Russian: Лев Исаакович Шестов; 31 January [O.S. 13 February] 1866 – 19 November 1938), born Yeguda Lev Shvartsman (Russian: Иегуда Лейб Шварцман), was a Russian existentialist and religious philosopher. He is best known for his critiques of both philosophical rationalism and positivism. His work advocated a movement beyond reason and metaphysics, arguing that these are incapable of conclusively establishing truth about ultimate problems, including the nature of God or existence. Contemporary scholars have associated his work with the label "anti-philosophy." Shestov wrote extensively on philosophers such as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, as well as Russian writers such as Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Shestov is the 305th most popular philosopher (up from 337th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 105th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Philosopher.

Lev Shestov was a Russian philosopher who was most famous for his book "Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: A Study in Dostoevsky's Attitude Toward Reality."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Lev Shestov ranks 305 out of 1,267. Before him are Wang Yangming, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Otto Weininger, Guy Debord, Arnaldus de Villa Nova, and Celsus. After him are Anacharsis, Chilon of Sparta, Synesius, Roscellinus, Georges Sorel, and Henri Lefebvre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Lev Shestov ranks 18. Before him are Giovanni Agnelli, Beatrix Potter, Hans von Seeckt, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Aby Warburg, and Princess Viktoria of Prussia. After him are Nathan Söderblom, Antoine Meillet, Ferruccio Busoni, Anne Sullivan, Ramsay MacDonald, and Lizzie Magie. Among people deceased in 1938, Lev Shestov ranks 27. Before him are Suzanne Valadon, Christian Lous Lange, Osip Mandelstam, Suzanne Lenglen, Robert Johnson, and King Oliver. After him are Bruno Taut, Vasily Blyukher, Hans Christian Gram, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, William Stern, and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lev Shestov ranks 90 out of 1,365. Before him are Irène Némirovsky (1903), Karol Szymanowski (1882), Bruno Schulz (1892), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Andrzej Żuławski (1940), and Oleg Blokhin (1952). After him are Anacharsis (-700), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), Karl Radek (1885), Daniel of Galicia (1201), Clarice Lispector (1920), and Andriy Shevchenko (1976).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Ukraine

Among philosophers born in Ukraine, Lev Shestov ranks 2. Before him are Nikolai Berdyaev (1874). After him are Anacharsis (-700), Bion of Borysthenes (-325), Theophan Prokopovich (1681), Zalmoxis (-713), Alexius Meinong (1853), Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841), Yuriy Drohobych (1450), Hugo Kołłątaj (1750), Georges Florovsky (1893), and Ber Borochov (1881).

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