Federico Skodler
Istituto Internazionale J. Maritain, TriesteSummaryThis paper deals with the relation between Maritain and She-stov. Deep differences existed in the thinking of these two philosophers, who met in 1937 thanks to Benjamin Fondane. Maritain places Shestov in the wake of Kierkegaard, Barth, Berdjaev and Léon Bloy. In his opinion, Shestov must face deep inside himself a substantial antinomy: he makes philosophy against philosophy, his thought a contradictory, yet deep and powerful form of Jewish thinking, of the eternal Jewish protest. Shestov is a precious stimulus for the renewal of religious thought thanks to his...