LEV SHESTOV - ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH AND GOODNESS

The article tells of one of the best researches of the creative career and the intellectual evolution of the most important Russian existentialist philosopher Leo Shestov. This book written by Italian scholar Andrea Oppo was published in 2020 in US. It depicts all the details of the growing up of Shestov as a thinker, examines closely all his works, including short pieces, analyses practically all the aspects of his biography. It stresses the thesis that the book «Lev Shestov: The Philosophy and Works of a Tragic Thinker» can be called as probably the best of all that have been published in English about this thinker in the terms of objectivity and all-compassing of all contexts of his world-view. But at the same time the review states that the author uses his own conception of the evolution of his hero that seems to be not so evident. The author proves that later Shestov came apart from Nietzscheanism and adopted the standpoint of existentially reconsidered Neo-Platonism, that the struggle against one-sided Western rationalism displaced for him the conflict with moral, Plotinus displaced Kant. The review proves that this point of view keeps out of consideration a whole range of very important aspects in the works of later Shestov particularly of his interest to the ideas of Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard.

Telaah Kritis Konstruksi Eksistensialisme dalam Teologi Antroposentris Ḥasan Ḥanafī

Anthropocentric theological reconstruction of Ḥasan Ḥanafī introduces us a set of humanity themes as a stand point to build and develop human’s religious-spiritual reason in order to respond to spiritual emptiness of the West and material desolation of the East. Human beings possess what so-called authenticity of actions. It is—within Ḥanafī’s anthropocentric theological reconstruction—termed as independent human; a human who has independence in every action and makes the Islamic theology as the basis of his/her spiritual and practical values. Critical reading through the theory of hermeneutics promulgated by Jurgen Habermas brings this article to a finding of epistemological correlation between the independent human (within Ḥanafī’s anthropocentric theological reconstruction) and the construction of thought the West’s existentialism philosophy. Critical-constructive reading of this article puts Ḥanafī as a theistic-existentialist philosopher along with Islamic theology as his fundamental basis.

Still Life, With Lobster

On March 1, 2018, the Swiss government enacted a ban against boiling live lobsters to death. This article explores the significance of that ban: Is it a political statement, a symbolic gesture, or both? In asking those questions, the author seeks to understand what kind of food politics are at play when a country bans a cooking technique. Drawing upon such seemingly disparate works as David Foster Wallace's landmark essay “Consider the Lobster,” the author's own ethnographic fieldwork in an haute cuisine restaurant in Europe, and the teachings of the French existentialist philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, this article argues that regulations over how we kill the animals that will become our food are ripe for reconsideration.

Penciptaan Naskah Drama Pemberontakan Sisifus

The Rebellion of Syssiphus. The Rebellion of Syssiphus play script is an effort to response suicide phenomenonin Indonesia. Joining two different social lives among human life in Indonesia and Greek mythology constructsthis creation as a surrealism play script. The purpose of this creation is: 1) to create a joint script of two differentrealms between Sissyphus’ life and recent reality of Indonesian people’s life in surrealist plot, (2) to produce a scriptconstantly contextual with man’s problem in life, (3) to enrich Indonesia Drama documentation through a scriptwith high motivational contents as an alternative of destiny. As a anti-suicide campaign for Indonesians, the authorinvokes a brilliant thinking of existentialist philosopher, Albert Camus, within the script to be performed andwatched. The implementation is not wholesome, but adapting Pancasila values. Therefore, this script is importantas a reference for students who teach and perform absurd scripts. Most drama observers say that the emergence ofabsurd script proposed by group of dramatist in 1950’s could not be released from Camus’ thought

Informed Consent in the Human Genome Enterprise

When Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existentialist philosopher, declared some four decades ago that man makes himself, this assertion was based on Sartre's belief that human beings do not possess an essential human nature. Man's self creation had to do with his freedom to choose the roles that he played or could play, and their attendant effects on his attitudes and responsibilities. It said nothing about his freedom to alter his biological nature.