ABSTRACT
Contrary to the academic tradition of interpreting Fear and Trembling, Valery Podoroga asserts that Abraham's deed cannot be made the subject matter of ideological discourse just because it cannot be imagined or objectified in the image. Podoroga's Abraham did not have anything in common with the character constructed by the political and religious criticism of modern aestheticism. According to Podoroga, Søren Kierkegaard was thoroughly persuaded that a thought existed only as the thought to be expressed, and that is why it is more correct to consider his maieutic manner of philosophizing not as an implicit technique. Metaphysics of the Landscape was published in 1993, when the post-Soviet academic environment manifested not merely a willingness to extend the school-level introduction to Kierkegaard that started as early as the 1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw.
