ABSTRACT
A graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, Sergey Alexandrovich Isaev made his way into philosophy as a scholar with interests that remained practically unchanged throughout his life. By the end of the 1970s, the Soviet history of Western philosophy appeared as an extraordinarily miserable phenomenon. For Isaev, Kierkegaard's effort to advocate the purity of Christentum in contrast to Christenhed, addressed the misdirection of Lutheran theology, Pietism, the Romanticism of Schleiermacher and speculative idealism. Due to Sartre's popularity in the USSR, Isaev had an opportunity to develop his own view of Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard's religiosity implies not actual truths, but existential ones that evade objectification. For twelve years and up until his death, Sergey Isaev held the post of rector of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS), and his administrative activities are thought to have led to his death.
