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      [ English ]

• Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev was a long-time friend of Shestov's and wrote these two articles about him:
  The fundamental idea of the philosophy of Lev Shestov
  Lev Shestov and Kierkegaard
  Lev Shestov: On Occasion of his 70th Year
  
• Reason, Faith and Creation is a plagiarism of Bernard Martin's introduction to "Athens and Jerusalem".
• Creation and Novelty an article on the idea of Creation with some discussion of Shestov's philosophy.
• Short paper about Derrida's views on religion which mentions Shestov together with his friend Edmund Husserl.
• Death in Life has striking quotes from Shestov.
• Tolstoy's comments on Shestov's visit as reported by Maxim Gorky.

      [ French etc ]

• Excerpt from an article on Shestov vs Berdyaev, by Ramona Fotiade. She also heads Leon Chestov Society in Scotland.
• Benjamin Fondane was Shestov's closest friend and disciple, and a thinker in his own right; he died too young in the Nazi camps but left enough manuscripts to warrant interest. Also see Colloque Chestov-Fondane 2000
• Mention of Shestov in an article about philosophy of suicide.
• Shestov vs Spinoza a humorous enactment of a possible debate if Spinoza could answer.
• Brazilian site on existentialism with a substantial page on Shestov.
• Swedish site called Nimrod featuring Shestov, Kierkegaard and Berdyaev.
• Dutch article Leo Sjestov's protest tegen de rede
• Dutch page De Filosofie der Tragedie
• Spanish article Kierkegaard por Chestov
• German article Glaube und Wissen bei Lev Šestov with bibliography

      [ Russian ]

• Shestov at bulgakov.ru concise biography.
• Memoirs of Aaron Steinberg who knew Shestov personally.
• Shestov as I remember him, reminiscences by Herman Lovtzky, Shestov's brother-in-law.
• Online libraries of some of Shestov's shorter writings:
  Biblioteka Vehi
  Biblioteka Magistra
  Inkwell
• Russian philosophers abroad a unique bibliography of Shestov's *articles* published in exile.

      [ Existentialism ]

• General resources:
  
  Existentialism Primer very informative
  The Realm of Existentialism for a light-hearted approach
  
  
• FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
  
  Two texts frequently referenced by Shestov:
  Notes from the underground
  Dream of a ridiculous man
  
  Christiaan Stange's Dostoevsky Research Station
  Dostoevsky at Online-Literature.com
  High Spirit Low Spirit with unique links and commentary
  Dostoevsky at LittleBlueLigth.com
  Notes on the "Notes from the Underground"
  
  
• FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
  
  The Nietzsche Channel e-texts in German and English
  Nietzsche's Labyrinth with lots of articles
  Nietzsche at Project Unicorn for e-texts
  Nietzsche Hauptseite with material on Lou Salome
  On-line Articles and Reviews
  Nietzsche and Buddhism an article
  
  
• SOREN KIERKEGAARD
  
  Anthony Storm's Kierkegaard website is particularly well documented
  Kierkegaard at LittleBlueLight.com for a brief introduction
  Some selections from SK's writings
  Kierkegaard's Parables
  Full e-text of Fear and Trembling and some other of his writings.
  Introduction from The Concept of Dread
  What did Kierkegaard want? an article by R.Kimball
  
  
• BLAISE PASCAL
  
  Pascal at LittleBlueLight.com
  Blaise Pascal page has all the essentials
  Pascal's Memorial commemorates Pascal's shattering mystical experience
  Pensées in English
  An Apologist for Our Times an article on Pascal's christian apologetics
  
  
• EDMUND HUSSERL
  
  The Husserl Page with links to Martin Heidegger
  
  
• MARTIN BUBER
  
  Buber.de is a dedicated site in German and in English
  
  
• LEO TOLSTOY
  
  Lev Tolstoy site seems fairly complete
  About Leo Tolstoy for e-texts and brief introduction
  The death of Ivan Ilych seminal existential short story
  Leo Tolstoy on the Law of Love a spiritual commentary
  Last Days of Tolstoy reminiscences by a Tolstoy's disciple
  
  
• ANTON CHEKHOV
  
  Anton Chekhov with about 400 short stories online
  The Anton Chekhov Page with a wealth of resources
  The lady with a dog one of Chekhov's best short stories

      [ Philosophy ]

• General links on philosophy and philosophers discussed by Shestov:
  
  The Labyrinth medieval philosophy reference site.
  Argos search ancient and medieval internet
  The Perseus Project for classics in-depth
  The Internet Classics Archive at MIT
  Philosophy Pages for general reference
  Episteme Links a philosophy portal
  
  
• ARISTOTLE
  
  Non-contradiction.com a complete Aristotle site
  Stanford's Encyclopedia explicates Aristotle's Logic
  Aristotle at the Radical Academy
  
  
• PLATO
  
  Academic introduction to Plato
  Plato's Dialogues in French and English
  
  
• PLOTINUS
  
  Neoplatonism.org specialized portal with links to e-texts
  A concise resource on Neoplatonism
  Who was Plotinus? introduces philosophical concepts
  E-text of the Enneads
  The internet Encyclopedia of philosophy gives an in-depth look
  
  
• LUTHER
  
  Review of Erasmus vs Luther debate on freewill and salvation
  Life of Martin Luther
  Two Kinds of Authority, an article on how Luther's ideas are applied in protestantism
  Luther's concept of freewill, a detailed analysis
  De Servo Arbitrio full e-text
  
  
• SPINOZA, LEIBNIZ, KANT
  
  Spinoza Web a gateway to Spinoza on the internet
  Correspondance between Leibniz and Arnaud on metaphysics
  Kant on the Web with e-texts and a host of other resources
  
  
• HENRI BERGSON
  
  Time and Free Will an essay on the immediate data of consciousness

      [ Research ]

• BIBLE and related resources
  
  Bible Gateway a complete search of a dozen versions of the Bible
  Blue Letter Bible an efficient search site
  Biblical Resources Search for academic research into the Scripture
  Catholic Encyclopedia to look up concepts and names in Christianity
  Suda online encyclopedia of the Greek World
  NetSERF medieval resources gateway
  
  
• TOOLS dictionaries, search engines etc
  
  OneLook Dictionaries massive meta-search for English
  Infoplease English dictionary at Lycos.com has 125,000 words
  Online translator for texts and webpages between English, French, German, Russian
  
  Google, Altavista, Ithaki.net, Yandex.ru and Voila.fr