/lit/ - Literature

Anyone read Athens and Jerusalem? This guy's take on the conflict between philosophy and believing in an omnipotent God is fascinating. He goes through ancient, medieval, and modern philosophers and talks about that subject.

I sometimes have an impulse very much like what he describes, this feeling that trying to know, creating all these systems is somehow deeply wrong, and the truth is a wordless irrational connection to God, that reality itself is beyond our understanding completely and that what we think of as the laws of reason and nature are not real.

also can discuss other Shestov though this is the first book Ive read by him.