About the book: 1997 / The subject matter of the works that make up the manual can be defined, firstly, as “discussion about the method” in the cultural sciences: about understanding how the process of translation from the language of one culture to the language of another; about keyword research; about the hermeneutic self-understanding of science and, secondly, as the history of world culture: the study of the phenomena of spiritual reality in their temporal specificity and, at the same time, in the broadest context; analysis of how the past of a culture is visible in its present, and the present is already contained in the past. To clearly present this holistic approach of A. V. Mikhailov is the main task of the textbook on cultural studies “Languages ​​of Culture”. The manual is addressed to teachers of cultural studies, students, anyone interested in the problems of cultural history Alexander Viktorovich Mikhailov (12/24/1938 - 09/18/1995) - professor, doctor of philological sciences, head of the department of literary theory at the Institute of Literary Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Presidium of the International Goethe Society in Weimar, laureate of the Prize. A. Humboldt. For three decades, Russian readers have become acquainted in translations by A. V. Mikhailov with the works of Shaftesbury and Hamann, Graeder and Humboldt, Schiller and Kant, Hegel and Schelling, Jean-Paul and Bakhoven, Nietzsche and Dilthey, Weber and Husserl, Adorno and Heidegger, Auerbach and Gadamer. A. V. Mikhailov’s specialty is German studies, but his range of interests covers the entire history of European culture from antiquity to the 20th century. From the analysis of a painting or sculpture, he naturally moved on to the consideration of literary and musical works. A. V. Mikhailov’s attention is most focused on the eras of Baroque and Romanticism in our century.