Volume 14, Number 12 · June 18, 1970
Idealism and Its Critic
By John Bayley
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche
by Lev Shestov, translated by Bernard Martin, translated by Spencer E. Roberts
Ohio University Press, 400 pp., $10.00
Kierkegaard and the Existential Philosophy
by Lev Shestov, translated by Elinor Hewitt
Ohio University Press, 314 pp., $10.00
Potestas Clavium
by Lev Shestov, translated by Bernard Martin
Ohio University Press, 413 pp., $10.00
Chekhov, and Other Essays future date)
by Lev Shestov
University of Michigan Press, 240 pp., $4.40 (ohio University Press will publish a new translation at a
Athens and Jerusalem
by Lev Shestov, translated by Bernard Martin
Ohio University Press, 447 pp., $10.00
Essays in Russian Literature: The Conservative View
by Lev Shestov et al., translated and edited by Spencer Roberts
Ohio University Press, 464 pp., $9.50
The needs of the time can make most metaphysical propositions sound true, for their truth is a function of the consciousness of the time. To an age incredulous of theology, disillusioned with material progress and the ideals of humanism, the words of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard made a strong posthumous appeal. They had removed God but exalted faith; repudiated the conventional bond of faith with charity and reason; and offered the dynamics of a new egoism in which 'all things are possible.'
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