Abstract: In his article the author views the methodology of philosophical anthropology as a special time of thinking viewing human in a concrete historical, social, existential and psychological situation.

Keywords: philosophy, philosophical anthropology, psychology, methodology, human, method, philosophical learning

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Abstract: The article represents the speech by Ernst Cassirer – German philosopher and culture expert, representative of the Marburg tradition of Neo-Kantianism.

Keywords: philosophy, science, theoretical learning, meaning, space

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Abstract: It is possible nowdays to ascertain that a new situation bearing on attempts to rethink the phenomenon of time is coming up. Any similar approaches could be executed on the ground of a wide interdisciplinary synthesis for different disciplines offer incomplete notions of objective time. Proceeding from this premises, one may assume that valuable concept of time should not be formed within the limits of any separate scientifi c fi eld but could be solely inferred out of multidimensional interdisciplinary context. For this reason it is indispensable to direct basic attention to both particular features of various domains of time and methods of investigation of temporality in diverse rinds of scientifi c knowledge.

Keywords: philosophy, phenomenon of time, epistemological program, paradoxes of time, temporality, the temporal topics, irreversibility of time, measuring of time, a time scale, the alternative world

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Abstract: As the title of the article implies, Cassirer’s project has a philosophical and systematic (not only philosophical) meaning indeed. Secondly, Cassirer’s philosophy has a central principle and thirdly, this central principle is not well developed and does not apply to the cultural phenomena it was supposed to explain. Therefore, all Cassirer’s works represent a program of systematic epistemology of history in the fi rst place and the material which needs to be interpreted and explained by epistemology, on the other hand. Cassirer’s works have a certain order which suggests a progressive epistemological development but Cassirer has never applied the central principle of his epistemology – his interpretation of ‘symbol’ – to demonstrate and explain this epistemological development.

Keywords: philosophy, critical idealism, empiricism, substances and functions, designing, symbolic form, constructive philosophy of culture, synthesis, system and history, principle of development, symbolic function of technology

Abstract: The article uncovers the meaning of the Russian advance guard at the beginning of the 20th and its role for Russian culture. Emphasis is made on axiological and conceptual searches of advance guard representatives which helped to reinforce our cultural self-suffi ciency and identity.

Keywords: philosophy, advance guard, culture, ideology, time, space, values, innovations, traditions, modernism

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Abstract: The author studies post-classical interpretation of the problem of human and the perspective of his development in the modern world. Special attention is paid at the views of post-Marxist philosophers such as Alain Badiou, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and István Mészáros on human activity and social relation of individuals with the projects of construction of modern socio-cultural environment.

Keywords: philosophy, human, post-marxist, activity, socio-cultural environment, individual, social subject, democracy, agonism

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the problems of identity and transcultural dialogue based on the example of creative work by a South Korean fi lmmaker Kim-Ki-duk. Based on the analysis of his fi lm ‘Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring Again’ the author explicates the problem of personal self-identifi - cation in connection with the growing dialogue of cultures. In this fi lm the problem of a person losing his place in a modern world is interpreted from the point of view of Buddhism. Based on the author, the main achievement of Kim-Ki-duk is that he revealed the concept of identity from heuristic point of view and showed how important it is to free our minds from mass media stereotypes in order to understand the true meaning of human identity.

Keywords: cultural studies, dialogue, self-identifi cation, cinematograph, Korea, Christianity, Buddhism, communication, existentialism, absurd

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Abstract: Based on N. A. Berdyaev’s teaching about paradoxical ethics of creativity, the author of the article views the problem of creative mission of human and plans a concrete research in philosophical anthropology which would help to determine personal traits and qualities of human as a creating subject.

Keywords: philosophical anthropology, paradoxical ethics of creativity, ethics of law, spiritual creativity, personality, love, creation, humanity

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Abstract: The article views Chechov’s work and world perception from the point of view of philosophy and esthetics. In this regard the author also raises a question whether it is rightful to assume that Checkov’s works refl ected his religious opinions. Most of the attention is paid at the analysis of a ‘duality’ of Chechov’s poetics and parallels with L. Tolstoy’s, F. Dostoevsky’s works and west-European romanticism of the 19th century.

Keywords: philosophy, creative work, world perception, humanism, realism, romanticism, irony, platitude, comedy, tragedy

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Abstract: The author views technology as a form of human communication and a communication strategy invented by human in order to govern the world. But the world around is the human world. When we ask about technology, we ask about human, his purposes, values and responsibility. From this point of view connection between technology and morals are viewed as a link between responsibility and human rationality, i.e. culture and society. It seems obvious that such connection does not have any perspectives. However, the author thinks he knows how to unite technology and culture and how to prevent us from the confl ict between human and technology.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, technology, morals, tradition, innovations, communication, risks, institutions, progress

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Abstract: The author of the article makes an attempt to transform the ‘inner’ polemics on science as learning activity into the ‘external’ in the form of an imagined dialogue between the Dunce, Scientist and Science Philosophers. Based on the author, it will allow to reveal certain contradictions and dramatic moments of development of science and to see the ‘inner side’ of it.

Keywords: philosophy, science, epistemology, positivism, neopositivism, post-positivism, paradigm, methodology, verifi cation, falsifi cation

Abstract: The article is devoted to Yury Lotman’s path of life. The author analyzes peculiarities of Lotman’s creative evolution, in particular, his transfer to semiotic and cultural studies. The article also describes Lotman’s discourse and way of thinking.

Keywords: philosophy, structure, structuralism, text, model, studies of humanity, dialogue, science, scheme, heuristics

Abstract: The article is devoted to publishing of a great monograph of the Russian Institute of Cultural Studies ‘Outline of History of Sergiev Posad at the End of XVIII – XX Century’. This monograph continues the ‘Russian Province: Environment, Culture and Society’ books on Russian history and culture published by the Institute. In this monograph Sergiev Posad lifestyle and culture are shown as anthropologically oriented history focusing on ‘human’ or ‘resident’.

Keywords: cultural studies, studies of regions, historical cities of Russia, history of culture, socio-cultural environment, province, anthropologically oriented history, cultural traditions, cultural potential, cultural preferences