The book includes historical and philosophical essays by the famous philosopher and theorist of modern art and culture Boris Groys, whose heroes are such dissimilar thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries as Søren Kierkegaard, Lev Shestov, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Junger, Alexandre Kojève, Jacques Derrida and others. According to the author, they are all united by belonging to the tradition of “anti-philosophy”, which is engaged not so much in the search for truth as in its strong-willed assertion and resorts not so much to criticism of existing positions, but to “orders”. Their own task the author sees in the description the intellectual and existential possibilities arising from the decision to carry out (or not to carry out) such an order.