The review is devoted to the book by A.G. Prazdnikov “People of the Wars of the Scarlet and White Roses. Composition and Models of Behavior of Active Participants in the Socio-Political Conflict in England in the Second Half of the 15th Century”. The book is divided into three parts. Main factual material of the book […]
Tsvetkov Yu.L. Russia and Germany: literary displays. Book review: Russia — Germany: literary meetings (1880—1945), Moscow, 2017, 768 p
Readers are offered a fundamental comprehensive study, first undertaken in the new Russia. Intercultural communication of the two leading European countries appears in aspects of modern comparative studies as an important part of the history of Russian studies and German studies of the late XIX and first half of the XX centuries. The tragic years […]
Karpova O.M. Lexicographic scene of the XXIst century. Book Review: The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2024. 826 р
The readers are presented with a review of the collective monograph Finegan E., Adams M. (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary, devoted to the description of present-day problems of modern lexicography. The papers written by famous lexicographers state problems of new general and special dictionaries typologies, users’ participation in compilation of digital lexicographic projects, […]
Lebedev V.S., Smirnov D.G. Extreme consciousness: a brief history of an idea
The article presents a brief history of the phenomenon of extremality in the context of the philosophy of consciousness. The connection between extremality and civilizational dynamics is shown through the prism of ideas about human revolution and noospheric history. Selected discourses of extremality in the history of philosophy are considered. The special role of philosophy […]
Aslanyan A.O., Smirnov D.G. Philosophy of university audit: contradictory of regulations
The article is devoted to the philosophical foundations of university audit. The “theory of inspired trust” is considered, the heuristic potential of the concept of “trust” is recorded. A parallel is drawn between the theory of Theodore Limperg Jr. and the concept of the ternary description language. The methodological value of the latter for describing […]
Shorin R.V. Non-academic philosophy: personalistic representation (XX century). Part 1
The article attempts to identify the specificity of non-academic philosophy through the representation of five philosophers of the non-academic trend of the 20th century. At the same time, the goal is to identify conceptual variations of non-academic philosophy, to take a step towards its typology. In addition, the experience of personal or personalistic comprehension, according […]
Domninskii P.A. “Time” and “will” in Georgy Fedotov’s historiosophical system
The focus of the article is on the work of one of the most significant thinkers of the first wave of Russian emigration, Georgy Petrovich Fedotov (1881—1951). In his essays he often writes about history and related issues like will and historical determinism. Despite G.P. Fedotov's position of accepting free will and criticism of historical […]
Volkova V.O., Volkov I.E. Cognitive practice: from concept to representation
The article examines the phenomenon of cognitive practice in the context of the transition from conceptual thinking to the possibility of representation, which creates a new reality different from the actual surrounding world. It is noted that philosophizing forms the object of research — the evidence of the immediately given. In the historical and cultural […]
Bulychev I.I. Philosophy in the format of content and form
The article challenges the correctness of narratives, so to speak, of “radical ontologism”, which seeks to turn ontology into a special (main) one a «part» of philosophy that rises above all others. Such narratives are qualified as a line of hyper-materialism, which is a modern form of naive materialism. His claims to be a conductor […]
Isakov A.A., Grubov V.I. New in research of Arzamas initial history
The article discusses major achievements in historical, archaeological and source studies of the initial history of Arzamas, made over the past five years and which made it possible to solve many problems that existed quite recently. The results of these achievements provide grounds for recreating in general terms the early history of Arzamas. From the […]
Kornikov A.A., Dvortsov G.I. (abbot Herman). A new source on the family history of Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky
It is for the first time that a new source on the family history of Marshal of the Soviet Union A.M. Vasilevsky is published. It is the questionnaire of his father, priest M.A. Vasilevsky, written in December 1919 at the request of the Ivanovo-Voznesensky GubCheka during a mass survey of the clergy of the Kineshma […]
Ilyin Yu.A. The February Revolution and lustration: sketches to the problem (based on the materials of the democratic press of Ivanovo-Voznesensk)
The subject of the study is unusual: its uniqueness lies in the novelty of its approach to considering, in particular, such aspects as the restructuring of political self-government bodies. That transformation included their security and law enforcement agencies, the exposure and arrest of secret employees of the tsarist secret police, the social portrait of the […]
Abidulin A.M., Kosulnikov D.D. Qatar in the modern geopolitical system: The turkish factor
The article examines the foreign policy concept of the State of Qatar in the modern turbulent system of international relations through the prism of cooperation with the Republic of Turkey. The current geopolitical situation dictates its own rules to the world, within which Qatar has begun the process of rethinking its role in the Middle […]
Ivanova E.S. Ceremonial functions of the Praetorian Guard under the Principate
The article is devoted to the ceremonial functions of the Praetorian Guard and their significance for the political culture of the Principate. In particular, the author studies state-dynastic ceremonies in order to see the visual manifestations of the Praetorians’ political role, that helps to understand the hidden mechanisms of power. To achieve this goal, the […]