ABSTRACT
Piama Pavlovna Gidenko is a Soviet Russian philosopher and historian of philosophy. A special focus of her academic research has been the relation between philosophy and science. Gidenko reads Soren Kierkegaard as a dialogue of the author with himself in order to identify the problems and grasp the actual content of what is at issue, rather than to find an explanation. Kierkegaard's main argument, according to Gidenko, is that the truth is not what one knows, but what one can either be or not be, and that the objectivization of the truth is one of the reasons for the spiritual crisis of the epoch. Gaidenko suggests that the twentieth-century capitalist and mass media society reflect the mind described by Kierkegaard as passively succumbing to objective truth, which has been mechanically imposed upon it by the ideologues. She inevitably addresses the facts of Kierkegaard's biography in order to approach the central theme of the monograph.
