Lev Shestov and Edmund Husserl about the tasks of philosophy

The imaginary discussion of E. Husserl and L. Shestov on status and task of philosophy in the article is reconstructed and analyzed. The problem of differing approaches of Russian and German thought to understanding the essence of philosophy and its basic characteristics is discussed. The author shows how the possible relationship of the philosophical schools of various kinds that are contemporaries of one another while representing a completely different styles of philosophizing that on philosophical practices of very different constraints.