The readers are presented with a review of the collective monograph “Modern Germanic Philology and Western-European Literature”, created due to the initiative of the Learned Council D 212.163.01 of Nizhniy Novgorod State Linguistic University named after N.A. Dobrolubov. The review underlines the diversity of the covered topics, which includes research results, carried by scholars from […]
Loskutov Yu.V. The crisis of private intellectual property and general intellect
In the focus of the author’s attention is a crisis of private intellectual property, which in culture leads to the destruction of private property, as well as inhibiting the development of education and creativity. The factors of socialization of intellectual property are analyzed in the framework of the socio-philosophical discourse. It is recorded that existing […]
Nikolaeva А.S. Regional media discourse and the mosaic of mass political consciousness in the era of COVID-19
The article is devoted to media discourse, in the context of the implementation of symbolic politics understood as a semiotic space for the production of interpretations of social reality and the formation of political consciousness and thinking. Mosaic nature is noted as an apriori characteristic of the mass political consciousness. The author’s definition of media […]
Abramov P.D., Abramova A.I. Overview effect: holism of being and humanistic transformation of a person
The overview effect is a feeling of awe for the beauty of the Earth and awareness of responsibility for it, experienced by many cosmonauts, starting with Yuri Ga-garin. The purpose of the article is to reveal the ontological component of the overview effect and its ethical implications. The founder of the concept of the overview […]
Shimelfenig O.V. Typology of the pictures of the world
The author’s focus is on the problem of creating a holistic spiritual-psycho-physical picture of the world as a philosophical synthesis of the scientific, religious and existential-personal aspects of the world outlook with the help of noospheric language. As such an integral concept of reality a plot-game paradigm is taken, on the basis of which a […]
Tajsin E.A. Two levels and ways of describing consciousness in the format of existential materialism
The article is devoted to the problem of describing consciousness, the as-pects of which are diverse, as well as the ways of expressing its main function — cognition. The author reveals the content, firstly, of the main and, secondly, of the highest position available to human consciousness / cognition. It has been established that the […]
Yudin K.A. Metamorphoses of “cold warming”: Soviet-American cultural relations in the late 1950’s — early 1960’s
The article examines Soviet-American cultural ties and the influence of national, institutional and personal factors on them. The role of the State Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, the USSR State Radio and Television and other structures in the administrative-organizational and informational-political support of con-tacts with the American side is touched upon. The mechanisms […]
Potapov S.A. The problem of the Second front in the strategic thinking of F. Roosevelt and W. Churchill (November 1942 — December 1943)
The article analyzes the influence F. Roosevelt and W. Churchill on solving the problem of the Second front as a key issue of the coalition strategy of warfare in November 1942 — December 1943. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the role of Western leaders in the evolution of relations with the USSR. […]
Nekrashevich Ph.A. Distribution of military service Jews in the armed forces of the Russian Empire (1827—1874)
The article discusses the features of the distribution of Jewish military personnel in the army of the Russian Empire in 1827—1874. Jews were one of the discriminated confessional groups in the period under review. Discrimination of Jews was manifested not only in enhanced recruiting, but also in the distribution of Jews in army units. The […]
Komissarov V.V. Techniques and methods of counteraction to parascientific publications in the USSR in the 1960s and early 1980s
The article studies the opposition to pseudoscientific publications in the USSR in the 1960 — first half of the 1980s. Archival materials from the collections of the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI), the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI) were used. The relevance […]
Zverev V.O., Tsepilov A.Е. Fighting enemy intelligence in the West of the Russian Empire (1912—1915)
Despite the intensive development of aeronautics in the major European powers in the second half of the 19th century and the use of balloons for reconnaissance on the battlefields of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870—1871, the Military Ministry of the Russian Empire did not take into account the relevant combat experience. Subsequently, the Criminal Code […]
Evseev V.A., Filippova A.I. Рropaganda at the age of the Rose Wars. Images of two kings in the anonymous chronicle “The story of king Edward IV arrival in England”
Anonymous described Henry VI and the Lancastrian dynasty in a very negative way. This manifested itself in the designation of the illegitimacy of the power of Henry and the Lancastrians, the negative characterization of this king companions (the “rebels”), of their methods of struggle for power, the lack of a related characteristic of the monarch, […]
Ukhova A.S. Gender stereotypes about women in German humorous media discourse
This article is devoted to the identification, study and systematization of gender stereotypes about women in modern German jokes on the Internet, as well as trends in their further development. More than 550 jokes were collected using the continuous sampling method, in which a woman appears as one of the acting characters (or she is […]
Manik S.A., Korytova D.V. Cognitive metaphor in medical terminology in English media
The article considers the issues of cognitive metaphors in medical terminology and its metaphorization as exemplified by the usage of medical terms in English media. The role of cognitive metaphors in understanding and reflecting the world around by a human being has been the subject of numerous scientific researches. However, the aspect of metaphoric naming […]