Lev Shestov
Russian philosopher
Lev Isaakovich Shestov was a Jewish-Russian existentialist and religious philosopher. He is best known for his critiques of both philosophic rationalism and positivism. Wikipedia
Born: January 31, 1866, Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: November 19, 1938 (age 72 years), Paris, France
Influenced: Nikolai Berdyaev, Gilles Deleuze, Czesław Miłosz, and more
Influenced by: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, and more
Children: Nathalie Baranoff
Siblings: Fanny Lowtzky and Sophia Balahovskaya
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