Lev Shestov is a philosopher not in the traditional sense of the word, but in the same sense in which Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Goethe are philosophical. Almost all of his works are brilliant, deep, inimitably original literary excursions into philosophy. Shestov devoted his entire life not to the substantiation of his own system, not to the creation of his own concept, but to a task that was perhaps equally difficult - the detached and unbiased study of other people's philosophical constructions, the struggle with the rationalistic ideas of “reasonable understanding” - and, finally, a truly brilliant realization The tasks of philosophy as a science are “to teach us to live in the unknown”...