Abstract: Wondering about the process of informatization of the modern society, the author distinguishes such terms as ‘intellectualization’, ‘education’ and ‘informatization’. It is underlined that even though the modern humanity lives in the epoch of information, it does not give us enough grounds to talk about true, spiritually-based, intellectualization of the society.

Keywords: philosophy, human, society, cyberspace, intellectualization, psychokenetics

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Abstract: The article considers the essence of the mystical perception of the world and its connection with the basic sciences of philosophy: anthropology, ontology, gnoseology and ethics. The author attempted to compare the positive and negative aspects of the mystical ideology. The author also showed a possible mechanism of ‘breaking’ the mind of human into derivates.

Keywords: philosophy, mysticism, anthropology, perception of the world, ideology, existence, non-existence, mind, god, pantheism, Gnosticism

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of formation of a universal system of values in the context of globalization. The author analyzes institutionalization of civilization identity in a modern world. Much attention is paid at axiological aspects of modernization of communication between state institutions, nations and personalities at a global level. It is concluded that there is a certain need in activation of philosophical refl ection in the process of globalization of values in a pluralistic format.

Keywords: philosophy, globalization, policy, humanity, values, collaboration, civilizations, pluralism, culture, identity

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Abstract: The author describes how the term ‘technology’ developed through time. He gives a broad defi nition of technology including such contents as managing development, technological innovations, socio-cultural dependence. The author also analyzes what social technologies and social engineering means and discusses peculiarities of the humanitarian studies used in social technologies.

Keywords: philosophy, technology, knowledge, managing, engineering, truth, effectiveness, practice, anthropology, science

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Abstract: The article describes phitomorphic images in Slavic architecture and the perceptions of the after- life. The article is aimed at summing up and analyzing the role and place of phitomorphic images in Slavic architecture and perceptions of the after-life and defi ning the symbolic meaning of images as well as their origins. For the purpose of her study the author uses works by other scientists in ethnography, Russian mythology, history, language studies and architecture.

Keywords: cultural studies, phitomorphic, images, forest, trees, fl owers, paradise, hell, garden, garden city

Abstract: Environmental problems have the world outlook bases. The author contemplates this problem in a context of bases of the two cultures, European and traditional non-European, showing distinctions of the initial beginnings.

Keywords: philosophy, nature, culture, interpretation, China

Abstract: The article is devoted to apocalyptical movement against codes. Based on the author, this movement fi ghts against virtual human life and against human turning into post-human. The author of the article analyzes confessional denominational religious movement against codes. The author concludes that among numerous communities and organizations participating in this movement, the major role is given to the Protestant fundamentalism and truly-Orthodox movement.

Keywords: philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, apocalypse, virtual world, confessions, globalization, mysticism, fundamentalism, technology

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Abstract: Idealism and materialism are viewed as the extreme points, the opposites of an initially predetermined (by the Ancient World and the East) and essentially true hylozoistic paradigm. Successively matching with existentialism, hylozoism conceptually opposes to depreciation of human as a psychophysical subject.

Keywords: philosophy, human, subject, psychophysical, depreciation, idealism, materialism, cynicism, hylozoism, existentialism

Abstract: The article provides a brief research on the problem of death in the fi rst Bunuel’s fi lms (“Un chien andalou”, 1929, “L’Âge d’or”, 1930, “Las Hurdes. Tierra sin pan”, 1932). The author concludes that the director’s preoccupation by the problem of death, expressed with naturalistic and sexual images and aggressively built narration, results not just from French model of surrealism, but has its own deep grounds in Spanish culture, surrealistic by itself.

Keywords: philosophy, death, Spanish culture, surrealism, cinema, Eros, de Sade, Bunuel

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the connection between Kant’s epistemology and ethics. The Kant’s idea of ethical absolutism is in essence a consequence of the erroneous interpretation of morality as a special sort of “knowledge” and, accordingly, a result of the illegitimate insertion into an ethical discourse the apriorist and constructivist methodology.

Keywords: philosophy, ethics, absolutism, epistemology, gnoseocentrism, cognitivism, empiricism, apriorism, constructivism, ethical naturalism

Abstract: The semantics of a cultural landscape, the language of space, is full of culturally created senses of geographical space and landscape, knowledge, ideas transformed in the form of characters and relations between them, can act as a «modeling package of culture». Using a close connection between a geographical image and a sign, relationships between elements in the system can be restored. It is the system that defi nes mentality of culture. Unique pattern of meanings, with their coordinates in geographical space, creates the ultimate structure of the cultural landscape of the country.

Keywords: cultural landscape, semantics, geographical images

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Abstract: Today scientists have come to conclusions that just like a stylistic revolution, serialism became a powerful outcome of the tonality crisis and have been the main force of organization of musical modernism throughout several decades. The article is devoted to the stdy of the two antagonistic movements of the avant-garde in music, - post-serial modernism and experimental postmodernism. The author shows that these conceptions can effectively interact but they become useless when they are disunited or only enter an antagonistic contradiction with each other.

Keywords: cultural studies, modernism, postmodernism, serialism, post-serialism, aleatory music, Boulez, integration, deconstruction

Abstract: The article considers the issues of development of the post-industrial society and a new stage of it, - transformation to information society. Most of the focus is on defi ning and differentiating between terms of ‘knowledge’ and ‘information’. The author makes an attempt to thoroughly defi ne and analyze the term ‘information’ taking into account the growth of importance of information processes in social and political life.

Keywords: philosophy, society, knowledge, information, post-industrial, interpretation, communication, rationality, technologies, ideology

Abstract: This is a review of the book ‘Way to Recognition. Three Essays’ by Paul Ricoeur. The author describes the essence of Ricoeur’s study based on a multiple meaning of the word ‘recognition’. Special attention is given at the connection of terms ‘recognition’ and ‘self-recognition’.

Keywords: philosophy, personality, recognition, identity, identifi cation, otherness

Abstract: This is a review of a monograph ‘Neo- Kantianism: German and Russian: between Theory of Knowledge and Criticism of Culture’ in which the authors studied the importance of Neo-Kantianism for modern epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophical anthropology and other philosophical disciplines. It is underlined that it is the fi rst time in history that Neo-Kantianism is viewed in the context of Russian and German philosophical conceptions.

Keywords: philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of culture, anthropological philosophy, Kant, Neo-Kantianism