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Abstract: The author thinks over N. A. Berdyaev’s saying that ‘culture is a great failure’. It is underlined that it is possible to understand what the great Russian philosopher meant only if we appealed to his teaching about being, freedom, creativity and transcendence.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, being, freedom, creativity, transcendence

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Abstract: We live in the epoch of human engineering turning into an ‘engineering’ human. Undoubtedly, such Human has a certain future which may last for several centuries. ‘Traditional’ or ‘historical’ human has all his future in the past. He has only eternity. Conservative revolution under the banner of Archaeo Avantgarde is the main business of the day at the 21st century. All the rest is the ‘business of the night’. Thus shall we live further.

Keywords: philosophy, human, personality, God, nature, subject, future, individual, engineering, metaphysics

Abstract: Having stared in the West 250 years ago, acceleration brought scientific and technological prosperity and simplification of spiritual life typical for mass culture.

Keywords: philosophy, acceleration, cultural revolution, mass culture, neoteny, technological revolution, evolution

Abstract: Initially aiming at human prosperity, new technologies created a threat to human and created the problem of utilization of technological ‘garbage’ in near-Earth and on Earth (contamination of the land and oceans as a consequence of all kinds of experiments). The question is, what for is all that? The answer is: active ambitions of the mind and will power aimed at restraining nature, raised the topic of ‘self-destruction of living substance’ first spoken of by V.I. Vernadsky.

Keywords: philosophy, traditional culture, world perception, cosmos/nature/wholeness, environmental crisis

Abstract: The author discussed grounds for the hypothesis that many concepts of language in Russian philosophy appeared as a result of a sharp and still on-going crisis of language making us doubt the possibility of an adequate understanding of words. These conceptions differ in concrete principles of text formation but have the same strategy of overcoming the language crisis. In comparison to Bakhtin’s, Florensky’s and Schpet’s theories of language, the author described A. Losev’s theory of ‘positional polytropia’ as a core principle of text formation. According to the author, Losev’s theory was made to provide adequateness and wholeness of communication.

Keywords: language crisis, principles of text formation, polyphony, polyrolism, polycyclia, polytropia, multi-layered, multi-vectored

Abstract: The article is devoted to the basic image of Antique philosophical perception of the world, - Universal Mind. The author studied how the conception of the Universal Mind changed from one philosopher to another. By doing so, the author clearly showed the ontological development of views on the Universal Mind as well as demonstrated how it influenced formation of ethical and intellectual virtues of wise men.

Keywords: mind, nous, fate, virtue, cosmos, consciousness, wise man, Demiurge, element of nature, stoicism

Abstract: The author of the article viewed the literary process of the 20th century in the context of sociology. According to the author, literary works were often subject to excessive sociologizing and politicization. However, in social and cultural contexts literature and literary process are often viewed as phenomena actualizing the bond between society and culture, art and human.

Keywords: philosophy, cultural studies, literature, sociologizing, art, social services commissioning, politicization, legacy, socio centricity, culture centricity, creativity

Abstract: The article is devoted to the Russian nativist movement founded by the brothers Dostoevsky, Grigoriev and Strakhov, - pochvennichestvo or ‘returning to soil’. The author revealed the conception of ‘soil’ in pochvenniks’ point of view and underlined the traditional nature of pochvennichestvo. Based on Orthodox culture, pochvenniki established the conception of the ‘national soil’ as a storage of national and cultural archetypes and harmonic development of culture.

Keywords: philosophy, pochvenniki, traditions, soil, mentality, harmony, Orthodoxy, conciliarity, art, national character

Abstract: The author talks about the new branch of philosophical anthropology, - interpretative anthropology which studies the differences between cultures and between cultural meanings. The author defined the borders of this new discipline and described its formation and development. The author also considered the comparative descriptions of cultures.

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, social anthropology, ethnology, culture, ethos, traditions, mentality, nation, group

Abstract: Dealing with space, culture re structures it and arranges it in a certain order. Being the result of interactions between culture and space, cultural landscape absorbs information IN the space and ABOUT the space which appears in the process of life of culture. Cultural landscape is a system of signs in very complicated and polyvalent relations with one another.

Keywords: philosophy, cultural landscape, semiotics, geographical space, landscape, sign-image, culture

Abstract: This is the interview with Alexander Razin, the professor of the department of ethics, philosophical faculty at Moscow State University. In his interview Razin answered the main questions on the essence and nature of ‘moral motivation’.

Keywords: philosophy, set of morals, values, society

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Abstract: This is the reference on B. I. Pruzhinin’s book ‘Ratio serviens? Contours of Cultural and Historical Epistemology’ devoted to the core problem of philosophy and culture, - the problem of the mind. It is underlined that B. I. Pruzhinin’s methodological study has been a great contribution to the philosophical thought.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, history, mind, rationality, learning

Abstract: This is the reference on the book by Karl Mannheim, German and English philosopher coming originally from Hungary. Karl Mannheim is thought to be one of the creators of sociology of knowledge. The author underlines that Karl Mannheim’s book ‘Diagnosis of Our Time’ is becoming very topical under the conditions of the modern crisis and growing role of a state institution in economic life.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, history, sociology, knowledge, Karl Mannheim

Abstract: This is in memoriam of Feohariy Kessidi, expert in Antique philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, professor, corresponding member of the Athens Academy of Sciences, who died on December 23, 2009. Kessidi’s works on history of Antique philosophy, such as ‘From Myth to Logos’, ‘Ideas and People have certainly been a great contribution to the history of the world culture.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, antique culture, Greece, Feohariy Harlampievich Kessidi