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“He felt deeply the fallacy of ideals and disenchantment of
time: in fact, he borrowed Shakespeare’s words “The time is out of joint” as
his lifelong motto, as if something were irreparably broken within the laws of
nature and morality, and nobody could ever fix it. From then on, the only prob-
lem for Shestov would be how to deal with this irreversible and unsolvable fact.”
— Jul 04, 2025 11:10AM
time: in fact, he borrowed Shakespeare’s words “The time is out of joint” as
his lifelong motto, as if something were irreparably broken within the laws of
nature and morality, and nobody could ever fix it. From then on, the only prob-
lem for Shestov would be how to deal with this irreversible and unsolvable fact.”
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Eric Linder
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This book is a whirlwind. I’m very grateful to Andrea Oppo for gifting me a copy to read and I am unpacking Shestov’s thought slowly… Shestov is so peculiar and unorthodox, every time I pick up my pen to actively recall and summarize the last five pages I just read, I imagine him wincing, impatiently waiting to explain his philosophy to me again and again.
— Jul 17, 2025 12:41PM
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Shestov was, in his own words, making his last attempt to put “time” back
on its right track in this work, seeing the “laws of the world” as still intact and
traditional morality as still valid. It was the Nietzschean transvaluation of all
values that would soon radically modify his previous
notions.
— Jul 04, 2025 11:16AM
on its right track in this work, seeing the “laws of the world” as still intact and
traditional morality as still valid. It was the Nietzschean transvaluation of all
values that would soon radically modify his previous
notions.
