SOURCE: A review of In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths, in Slavic Review, Vol. 35, No. 4, December, 1976, pp. 752-53.

Scanlan is an American educator and author of works concerning Russian philosophy. Below, he discusses problems with the translation of In Job's Balances.

In light of the debt owed the Ohio University Press for making available in English over the past ten years an entire series of works by the Russian existentialist philosopher and critic, Lev Shestov (1866-1938), only a churl could greet the present (seventh) volume without at least a show of gratitude. The fact is, however, that In Job's Balances has been available in English for a long time. Indeed, portions of the work have already appeared in other volumes of the Ohio University Press series. The chapter "What Is Truth?" was appended to the Press's edition of Potestas Cavium in 1968, and for this...