20th century · 1866–1938
Who influenced Lev Shestov?
Influences and legacy
Philosophy of tragedy against reason — Dostoevsky and Nietzsche over Athens.
Lev Shestov was influenced by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche, and went on to influence Albert Camus. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Lev Shestov?
Lev Shestov, born Yehuda Leib Schwarzmann, was a Russian existentialist and religious philosopher best known for attacking rationalism and positivism. Reason and metaphysics, he argued, cannot settle the ultimate questions, such as the nature of God or existence, and some scholars call his work "anti-philosophy".
He wrote on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov; his books include Apotheosis of Groundlessness (1905) and Athens and Jerusalem (1930–1937). He emigrated to France in 1921, befriended Edmund Husserl and Georges Bataille, and lived in Paris until his death in 1938.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Lev Shestov?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821–1881
- Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900
Who did Lev Shestov influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Lev Shestov.
- Albert Camus 1913–1960
The line of teachers behind Lev Shestov
The longest documented line of influence ending at Lev Shestov runs 25 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Max Stirner
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Lev Shestov
Two steps away from Lev Shestov
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Lev Shestov
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Lev Shestov, with no direct line between them.
- Max Weber 1864–1920
- W. E. B. Du Bois 1868–1963
- Kitarō Nishida 1870–1945
- Nikolay Lossky 1870–1965
- Sergei Bulgakov 1871–1944
- Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
- Henri Bergson 1859–1941
- John Dewey 1859–1952
Lev Shestov by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 94
- Thinkers downstream
- 1
- Wikipedia languages
- 36 — #65 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Schools and lineages
Questions about Lev Shestov
- Who influenced Lev Shestov?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.
- Who did Lev Shestov influence?
- Albert Camus.
- When did Lev Shestov live?
- 1866–1938. The map files Lev Shestov under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Lev Shestov card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Lev Shestov in 36 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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