The philosopher Lev Shestov aimed to establish a new free way of thinking, which manifested itself as a struggle against the delusion that we have a rational grasp of the necessary truths on matters that are of the greatest importance to us, such as the questions of life and death. Philosophy, as the Russian philosopher understood it, is not pure thinking, but ‘some kind of inner doing, inner regeneration, or second birth’ (Shestov in Lektsii po Istorii Grecheskoi Filosofii [Lectures on the history of Greek philosophy], YMCA-PRESS, Moscow, 2001, p. 53). Having adopted the notion of the ‘regeneration of one’s convictions’ from Dostoevsky’s vocabulary in his earlier works, Shestov developed the idea of ‘awakening’ further in his mature thought, in which the motif of ‘awakening’ comprised one of the main ideas of his philosophy: the fight for the individual’s right to freedom and to creative transformation at a time when she is in despair or on the brink of death. In this article, I analyse Shestov’s idea of ‘awakening’ as one of the key tropes and developmental characteristics of his philosophical vision. In particular, I argue that, having stemmed from Shestov’s earlier interpretations of Dostoevsky, Shakespeare and Plotinus, in his later writings, the notion of ‘awakening’—the possibility of a fundamental, inner transformation of one’s worldview (probuzhdenie, pererozhdenie)—marked the beginning of a new salvific mode in his writing.

哲学家列夫·舍斯托夫 (Lev Shestov) 的目标是建立一种新的自由思维方式，这种方式表现为与妄想的斗争，即我们可以理性地掌握对我们来说最重要的事物的必要真理​​，例如生活问题和死亡。正如俄罗斯哲学家所理解的，哲学不是纯粹的思考，而是“某种内在行为、内在重生或重生”（Shestov in Lektsii po Istorii Grecheskoi Filosofii[希腊哲学史讲座]，YMCA-PRESS，莫斯科，2001 年，p。53)。舍斯托夫从陀思妥耶夫斯基早期作品中的词汇中采用了“信念的重生”的概念，在他成熟的思想中进一步发展了“觉醒”的概念，其中“觉醒​​”的母题构成了他的主要思想之一。哲学：在个人处于绝望或濒临死亡边缘时争取自由和创造性转变的权利。在这篇文章中，我将谢斯托夫的“觉醒”思想作为他哲学视野的关键比喻和发展特征之一进行分析。特别是，我认为，源于舍斯托夫早期对陀思妥耶夫斯基、莎士比亚和普罗提诺的解释，在他后来的着作中，“觉醒”的概念——一种基本的可能性，probuzhdenie, pererozhdenie )——在他的写作中标志着一种新的救赎模式的开始。