About the book: 2018 / In his new book, Vladimir Kantor, writer, Doctor of Philosophy, head of the International Laboratory for Research of Russian-European Intellectual Dialogue of the National Research University " Higher School of Economics (NRU-HSE) and a full-time professor at the School of Philosophy of the same university, gives a kind of master class, showing that literature and philosophical reflection do not contradict each other at all. One of the author’s favorite ideas is that only in a philosophical context does artistic expression become intelligible text. In this book, he tried to realize this understanding of culture. All texts were published in periodicals - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Czech, American (USA). The publishing layout of the book was saved in PDF A4 format.