Penultimate Words, and Other Essays

This vintage book contains a collection of essays written by the influential Russian philosopher, Lev Isaakovich Shestov. One of the most delicate and individual of modern Russian critiME, Shestov was a radical empiricist and proto-existentialist thinker who integrated literary theory and philosophical thought in a masterful way that inspired such minds as Camus, Dostoyevsky, Deleuze, D. H. Lawrence, and Bataille. Included in this collection are the essays: "e;Anton Chekhov"e;, "e;The Gift of Prophecy"e;, "e;Penultimate Words"e;, and "e;The Theory of Knowledge"e;.-Print ed.