Marci Shore, Hegel or Job: Reading Lev Shestov in Wartime Kyiv 

Marci Shore (Yale University)
"Hegel or Job: Reading Lev Shestov in Wartime Kyiv"
“Men respond only faintly to the horrors that take place around them, except at moments, when the flagrant, savage incongruity and repulsiveness of our condition suddenly presents itself before our eyes with irresistible lucidity, and compels us to look at ourselves," wrote Lev Shestov, the Kievan Jewish philosopher, in 1905. "Then"--he continued--"the ground slides away from under our feet." For Shestov, philosophy began when reason confronted the borders past which it proved impotent. Its task was not to provide certainty, but to teach us to live in uncertainty, in our groundlessness.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy.

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