“Lev Shestov: philosopher of the sleepless night” – Matthew BEAUMONT

Staying woke and staying awake Stay woke! What does it mean, politically speaking, to resist the temptation to sleep? To be awake? And to remain awake? The word ‘woke’, used in its colloquial sense as an adjective to signify ‘alert to racial or social discrimination’, was first included in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017.… Continue lendo “Lev Shestov: philosopher of the sleepless night” – Matthew BEAUMONT

“Léon Chestov et la pensée du dehors” – Ramona FOTIADE

Europe - Revue Littéraire Mensuelle, 87e année, n° 960 / avril 2009. Bien avant Foucault, Deleuze et Derrida, il y eut, au début du siècle à peine révolu, qui allait si singulièrement faire basculer nos repères et nos certitudes, un de ces « partisans », « francs-tireurs » ou « aventuriers de la pensée »… Continue lendo “Léon Chestov et la pensée du dehors” – Ramona FOTIADE

“Cur Deus homo: the irrational residuum of being” (Ramona Fotiade)

Dr Ramona Fotiade (University of Glasgow) speaking at the conference on Faith and the Search for Certitude: Religious, Phenomenological and Existential Perspectives -- Cur Deus homo: The Irrational Residuum of Being (Reflexions on Jean-Luc Marion and Leon Chestov), March 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOt9yYfkMI

Shestov thought from outside

Lev Shestov - The Thought from Outside. English subtitles. Léon Chestov 1866-1938 : la Pensée du Dehors: un Film de La Societe d'Études Léon Chestov et le Passager Productions. Fotiade, R. (2016) Léon Chestov 1866-1938 : la Pensée du Dehors: un Film de La Societe d'Études Léon Chestov et le Passager Productions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMQHjayz4Ps