About the book: 1989 / The outstanding Russian philosopher G. G. Shpet became interested in the problems of aesthetics in the early 1920s and dedicated his wonderful "Aesthetic fragments" to them, opening his many years of reflection on the essence of human existence and knowledge. For linguists, the most interesting is the published second part of “Aesthetic Fragments”, reflecting the author’s views on various problems of the philosophy of language, semiotics, linguogenesis, logical analysis of language, semasiology, psycholinguistics (in particular, on the problem of speech reception and understanding). G.G. Shpet examines in more detail the issues of structuring a linguistic sign, the relationship between meaning and meaning, the relationship between words and culture, the place of sensory impressions in the semantic structure of a word; attracts extensive theoretical and linguistic material, offers his own interpretation of the views of W. von Humboldt, G.V. Leibniz, as well as A. Marti, whose particular influence affects the terminology of G.G. Shpet. The book is intended for linguists, philosophers, psychologists, cultural scientists , as well as teachers, students and graduate students of humanities universities and all interested readers. From the book by G. G. Shpet. Works, Moscow, publishing house "Pravda"», 1989