About the book: 2017 / In his work, Vladimir Kantor, 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 an ordinary professor at the School of Philosophy of the same university, chooses the topic of his research to connect literature with philosophy. In the author's opinion, there was not a single great literary work that was not in the intense field of philosophical ideas. Outside this context, the present literature is incomprehensible. Already Plato's dialogues were both philosophy and wonderful literature. According to Dostoevsky, “a thought must be felt.” But for this, there must be a thought in the work, there must be a philosophical context. Thus, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is incomprehensible without reference to the texts of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Pico della Mirandola, Martin Luther, echoes of whose ideas are heard in the speeches of the prince. As Heidegger said, in the poetic sayings of ancient Greek philosophers the Western world, its culture, is born, for philosophy and poetry stand at different peaks, but say the same thing... The task of the researcher is to be able to see this, and to communicate what he saw to the reader, which can be done in the only way - give an analysis of the philosophical meanings in the great works of world literature. The book examines texts by Shakespeare, Hoffmann, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Vl. Solovyov, V. Bryusov, E. Zamyatin, A. Koestler, I. Ehrenburg, V. Kormer and other masters of literature in the philosophical context of their time. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.