LEV SHESTOV - ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH AND GOODNESS
The article tells of one of the best researches of the creative career and the intellectual evolution of the most important Russian existentialist philosopher Leo Shestov. This book written by Italian scholar Andrea Oppo was published in 2020 in US. It depicts all the details of the growing up of Shestov as a thinker, examines closely all his works, including short pieces, analyses practically all the aspects of his biography. It stresses the thesis that the book «Lev Shestov: The Philosophy and Works of a Tragic Thinker» can be called as probably the best of all that have been published in English about this thinker in the terms of objectivity and all-compassing of all contexts of his world-view. But at the same time the review states that the author uses his own conception of the evolution of his hero that seems to be not so evident. The author proves that later Shestov came apart from Nietzscheanism and adopted the standpoint of existentially reconsidered Neo-Platonism, that the struggle against one-sided Western rationalism displaced for him the conflict with moral, Plotinus displaced Kant. The review proves that this point of view keeps out of consideration a whole range of very important aspects in the works of later Shestov particularly of his interest to the ideas of Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard.