Abstract: Based on the author, language is not only a number of signs but a reflection is human feelings and even life style and a way to perceive the world. Giving poetic images to words, poetry shows us a deep nature of the language.

Keywords: philology, poetry, language, word, image, feeing, symbol.

Abstract: The article is devoted to peculiarities of Alexander Blok’s poetical mysticism. The author of the article describes the stages of changes in the central Image of his poetics and analyzes specifics of Alexander Blok’s attitude to artwork.

Keywords: philology, myth, logos, Blok, Soloviev, mysticism, Andreev, chronotopus, philological, symbolism.

Abstract: The article analyzes a relation between poetry and philosophy, their intersecting points and inter-relation on the basis of similarities in their history and ontology.

Keywords: philology, poetry, philosophy, culture, metaphysics, Iosif Brodsky, art, phenomenology, history, literature.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of Hegel’s views on a role of a symbol in poetry and music. The article casts light on such aspects of Hegel’s conception of symbol as: relation between a sign and a symbol, unconscious symbolic as the first stage of art and duality of a symbol.

Keywords: philology, philosophy, symbol, sign, symbolic, pre-art, art, unconscious symbolic, duality of a symbol, spiritual need.

Abstract: The article analyzes the meaning of a ‘closed eyes’ gesture in the Russian spoken language. The author distinguishes the closed eyes as a fully independent gesture, semi-notional gesture accompanying negation and assertion as well as a ‘service’ gesture (blinking) which can be also interpreted as punctuation, accentual diacritical mark and a change of focus of attention.

Keywords: philology, eyes, blinking, gestures, assertion, negation, pausation, accentuation, attention, look.

Abstract: The article deals with the meaning of a ‘meaning’, pointlessness of absurdness and realism as a priority strategy in understanding of being. This strategy is viewed in comparison with constructivism and the theory of reflection.

Keywords: philology, philosophy, ontology, gnoseology, meaning, conceptualization, absurdness, realism, constructivism, human.

Abstract: The author analyzes American critical works dedicated to M. M. Bakhtin’s publications. The author notes that American literature gives a high appraisal of the Russian philosopher’s ideas. At the same time the author underlines inadequacy and narrowness of some conclusions made by American literature experts.

Keywords: philology, literature, history, philosophy, dialogue, assumption, polyphony, text, characters, heuristics.

Abstract: Based on the studies of the history of Russian culture during the 19th — 20th centuries the author describes twists and turns in a struggle ‘for’ and ‘against’ Pushkin including apologies of Pushkin by Ap. Grigoriev (‘Our Everything’) and Dostoevsky (talking about Pushkin), Mayakovski (‘Anniversary’) and Tsvetaeva (‘My Pushkin’) as well as odious examples of overturn of Pushkin as a ‘faked authority’. Significant place is given to the problem of modern — modernistic and post-modernistic- interpretation of Pushkin’s creative work and image (Pushkin as a text of Russian culture of the 20th century). The author of the article raises quite a number of problems, - related both to theory and history and caused by the depreciation of the value of cultural phenomena due to the Russian revolution and a break of Russian culture into ‘pre-revolutionary’ and ‘after revolutionary’, ‘immigrants’ ad soviet, official and oppositional. Among these problems there are ‘death of the author’, absence of a hero’, the ‘idea of disturbed truth’, cultural falsifications of the 20th century, playing with history, ‘double translation’… This is where I. Kondakov sees the roots of formation of the Russian post-modernism.

Keywords: philology, modernism, post-modernism, “death of the author”, culture, revolution, apology, hard times, history, messianism.

Abstract: The ‘Maids’ story has many layers: legal, patographic, dramatic. The criminal story about Papen’s sisters became the material not only for a number of journalistic investigation and social debates Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Paul Eluard participated in, but also provided the basis for the most popular Jean Genet’s play and Jacques Lacan’s book about paranoia (1933). Psychic, social, sexual roots of the crime, murderer as an esthetic event and spectacular pleasure, paranoia leading to the collapse of the subjectivity and delirium as an attempt to cure, - the ‘Maids’ story is made up of numerous discourses and points of views the director just ought to take into account. Nothing to say about the fact that the ‘Maids’ have been staged so many times (even by Peter Bengtson in his opera) that it is almost impossible to show this story in a new light.

Keywords: philology, dramaturgy, play, Lacan, sexuality, projection, specularity, identification, female, male, deceit of expectations.

Abstract: The article considers the essence and origin of environmental culture as a new branch of philosophy. Special attention is given to the views and outlook of a Lithuanian artist and composer M. K. Ciurlionis. It is underlined that environmental culture is based on the main goal of all human activities and communications, - preservation of human life on Earth, expansion of culture and cosmisation of activity and noosphere.

Keywords: philology, culture, philosophy, environmental culture, picture of the world, human, being.