Abstract: The article is devoted to the processes which were ongoing in a spiritual life of Japan during 1870-1930 when Japan was intensively adopting Western philosophy. Such adoption did not involve only conversance with foreign literature; it also laid foundation for the origin of scientific and philosophical terminologies in their native language. Two major study and research centers were created during that period – Institutes of Esthetics at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, which gave an opportunity to consider the implicit esthetics of traditional Japan to b an essential part of the bright mosaic of the world esthetics.

Keywords: philology, philosophical Japanese esthetics, Japanese artistic tradition, the field of nothing, Institute of Esthetics at University of Tokyo, Kitaro Nishida, Buddha’s teaching, body synthesis, periods of Japanese esthetics, intuition of a practical deed.

Abstract: In his article Nabokov analyzes Charles Dickens’ novel ‘Bleak House’ and describes the plot and the heroes’ destinies underlying the particular features of the novel. Nabokov pays honor to the talent and mastery of Dickens and underlines how bright the images in Dickens’ novels are.

Keywords: philology, writer’s mastery, satirics, fog, children, court of Chancery, false philanthropists, uncovering the evil, mystery, topic, false and true solutions.

Abstract: The author of the article analyzes a great Canadian sociologist and literary critic Marshall McLuhan’s views on literature (1911-1980). His researches of the forming influence of electric and electronic means of communication on human and society made him quite famous. The author of this article shows that an essential part of McLuhan’s esthetics and world of art as well as an importance stage in his formation and development as a literary critic and the theorist of communication still remains the literature of the American South – a so called ‘new critics’ approach. He had personal contacts with the ‘southern’ intellectuals and published is works in the ‘southern’ literary journals which helped McLuhan to assert himself and to make his name for the educational community.

Keywords: philology, philosophy, conservatism, literature, study of literature, tastes, myth, didacticism, critics, method.

Abstract: Studying neurotic and psychopathological states of human for many centuries has created the stereotype that Adam’s descendant is a rather sickly and defective person. It is especially strange when psychiatric terms are used for description of one’s behavior which is quite far from being pathological.

Keywords: literature, philology, psychiatry, norm, pathology, body, identification, behavior, degeneration, insanity.

Abstract: If we reconstruct the dynamics with which Pushkin filled in his Ushakovsky’s Album, we can assume that the Don Juan’s lists Puhskin composed in autumn was the continuation of his spring conversations with the sisters about love adventures. Most likely, it was influenced by the 2d edition of the first chapter of his Eugene Onegin and publication of his poem ‘Poltava’ at the end of March 1829. A visible evidence to that is Pushkin’s self-portrait as a romantic Poet and a female Trinity in other pages of the album. Consequently, Pushkin’s verse novel, especially the first chapters created in Odessa, keeps the secret of Pushkin’s love. Unlike åhe Fountain of Bakhchisarai, Eugene Onegin has never been thought to be the key novel in solving the mystery of A. S. Pushkin’s ‘secret love’.

Keywords: philology, Alexander Pushkin, Ushakovsky’s Album, poetry, Pushkin’s graphics, portraits, Eugene Onegin, Poltava, love, mystery, game.

Abstract: This article is devoted to the creative life of William Blake as a pet, philosopher and innovator in the sphere of philosophical poetry. William Blake had a great impact on succeeding tendencies in art, philosophy and poetry.

Keywords: philology, William Blake, insanity, metaphysics, evil, esthetics, anthropology, God, poetry, dialectics.

Abstract: The main goal of the article is to study the role and importance of Goffman’s late romanticism for the development of the Russian philosophical language. The author studies works by famous Russian philosophers such as V. S. Soloviev, P. A. Florensky, A. F. Losev and others. The purpose of the article is to show how the metaphors and images of Goffmaniana were used in Russian philosophical works of the 19th – 20th centuries. The method of research is the analysis from the point of view of literary critics and historical philosophy. The results of the study are numerous references to Goffman’s heritage in Russian philosophy. It allows to clarify the idea of connection between literature and philosophy in Russian culture as well as to point out some peculiarities of artistic impressions in Russian philosophy.

Keywords: philology, Russian culture, Russian philosophy, Russian literature, esthetics, Goffmaniana, Goffman, Soloviev, Florensky, Losev.

Abstract: This essay written by Smullyan touches upon a very deep problem of self-reflection and analysis of our own ‘self’. Where from do we know that we know this or that? We may choose to trust or mistrust someone else’s opinion. But can we actually trust our own beliefs or someone else’s opinion about our beliefs? Let’s suppose that we need an exact observer, or intelligent machine, in order to make final assessment of our knowledge, skills, beliefs and etc. But can we actually guarantee that such a machine is always right and it cannot go crazy just like human? Can anyone deceive the ‘lie detector’ and can we actually trust this machine? It is quite clear that creation of a ‘truth detector’ for a ‘lie detector’ would not solve the problem. These are the issues Smullyan’s essay are devoted to. The author of the article hopes that the philosophical fantasy described here will be of interest not only to epistemologists but also to psycho analytics.

Keywords: philology, epistemology, nightmare, death, science fiction, mental states, imagination, opinion, contradiction, morals.