Research Result. Social Studies and Humanities

The article examines the motif of transformation from human to animal in medieval commentaries on Ovid's «Metamorphoses». The relevance of this study is due to an interest in the representation ...

Contexts of the formation of the image of China
(based on the sample of the folk song “Jasmine Flower”)

Yinghong Feng

This article examines the role of classical Chinese folk songs in facilitating a musical and aesthetic dialogue between China and Europe. For the first time, the author introduces several ...

The Imaginary Middle: The Case of the Storyteller (Odyssey. Song 8)

Vadim Yu. Mikhaylin, Sophia V. Tikhonova

The authors strive to open the way to deeper understanding of the mechanisms by which archaic societies ensured social unity and identity in situations where traditional forms of communication could ...

Rethinking International Internships: Affective Subjectivation
and Normative Friction in the Chinese Context

Leisan R. Khaidarova

This conceptual article reinterprets international internships not as neutral platforms for skill development, but as structured encounters with institutional normativity and affective dissonance. Focusing on the Chinese context – a high-power, ...

A New Patriotism for New People
(Interdisciplinary Orientations)

Pavel A. Olkhov, Tatiana G. Chelovenko, Alexey S. Chelovenko

This article addresses the question of patriotism as a meaningful cognitive state, its historical foundations, and the practices of its presence in contemporary Russian public life. It clarifies the etymological ...

Intermediality in contemporary theatre practices

Yuliya V. Sysoeva

The article deals with the concept of intermediality and the possibilities of its application to experimental theatre productions of contemporary directors – R. Castellucci, C. Luppa, and R. Lepage. The problematisation of intermediality in ...

The text and/or the author? To find a way out of the “black and white maze”

Nikita S. Yegorov

The article examines the problem of the author’s place in the eventfulness of the author-text-performance relationship. The speaking author has been an integral part of the cultural landscape since Homeric ...

Plant ornament as a phenomenon of cultural synthesis: tradition and innovation in Russian textiles in the Silver Age

Vyacheslav V. Chervyakov, Dmitriy A. Belyaev

The article is devoted to the cultural and philosophical analysis of the problem of the genesis of plant ornament in the Russian textile tradition at the turn of the XIX-XX ...

Values, social expectations and backbone communications of Dagestan youth
(experience of political anthropology)

Felix I. Sharkov, Zaur A. Dadaev

Due to the polynationality and polyethnicity of the Russian state, the behavior of the younger generation in different regions has both similarities and differences, a distinctive system of value orientations ...

"Nobody to take...": Alexander I, reforms and Russian nobility
(Patrick O'Mеara and his "Russian nobility of the times of Alexander I")

Vitaly V. Penskoy

The problem of reforms (or revolutions) "from above" in Russia has long been of interest to historians, political scientists, cultural scientists and other specialists studying the development of society and ...

Some philosophical and theological meanings of the anthropic principle

Nikolay N. Barinov

The subject of the research is a critical discussion about the anthropic principle of the Universe between the representatives of materialistic monism and dialectical materialism on the one hand and ...

Polotsk neoscholasticism in the Russian intellectual space: main stages of development

Anna I. Klimovich

The article focuses on the under-researched topic of the formation and development of the local Polotsk neo-Scholastic philosophical tradition within the Russian intellectual sphere of the 19th century. Studying it ...

Transhumanism versus humanism

Yuri V. Loskutov

The transhumanist worldview, being a product of the culture of commodity fetishism, is a utopian and largely irresponsible reaction to the global socio-biological crisis. The article reveals the antinomy of ...

"Evolition of humanity": Kang Yuwei's metasocial anthropology

Elizaveta Yu. Makarova

The article presents a translation and commentary on part of the book The Great Unity, specifically the chapter “Evolution of Humanity”, by the Chinese philosopher, politician and public figure Kang ...

K.S. Aksakov's ideas as the basis of the concept of equitable social development

Tatyana A. Chikaeva

The relevance of addressing the analysis of some of the ideas of one of the leaders of the Slavophiles Konstantin Aksakov is determined primarily by the fact that in their ...

Euhemerism and representations of ancient Celtic religion in the studies of the 18th century:
works by P.-Y. Pezron (1639–1706) and P. H. Mallet (1730–1807)

Elizaveta G. Bruk

The article analyzes the problem of the reception of euhemerism as a historical, polemical and political tool in the 18th century, using the works by P.-Y. Pezron and P. H. ...

Russian concepts of developmental learning of initial writing in the first half of the twentieth century

Alexander A. Shtets

The article presents the results of a historical analysis of the implementation of the ideas of the Russian methodology of developmental teaching of initial writing in the first half of ...

Iegor Reznikoff: materials for biography and creative work

Ilya S. Agafonov, Nadezhda P. Nagibina

The article presents the first intermediate results of the research into the biography, scientific activity and creative heritage of the Russian-French musicologist, Professor Iegor Danilovich Reznikoff, who made a significant ...

Open journalism: audience as a subject of current media communication

Irina I. Karpenko

Open journalism is a type of journalism that involves an active role of the audience in creating and curating news on open-source Internet platforms. This activity is focused on the ...

Cognitive theological poetics: creation and poetry