Abstract: The conversation with an Abakan bibliographer, literary critic and translator Vladimir Borisov (born in 1951) is devoted to the modern state of Russian science fiction. Having planned a series of interviews with Russian literary critics, social commentators and philosophers, Nilogov has set a goal to critically evaluate the current intellectual environment of Russia which textocentricism has almost gone beyond the borders of the readers' control. Based on the analysis of Russian science fiction phenomenon, the author examines the problems connected with the futurological tendencies, artificial intelligence, technological development, and philosophy of science fiction. In his conversation Nilogov uses such methods as analytical, hermeneutical analysis, interview, critical, literary, synthetic, comparative, philosophical and heuristic analysis. According to Vladimir Borisov, today's Russian science fiction follows two tendencies, 'science fantasy' and 'portal travels'. However, the majority of such literary works have a low literary level: primitive language, simplified psychological descriptions of the main characters, absence of new ideas and standard plots.

Keywords: nano sapiens, philosophy of science fiction, artificial intelligence, Strugatsky brothers, fantasy, 'portal travel', Lem, futurology, Borisov, science fiction

Abstract: The subject of research is the rift (or gap) in human existence between subject and subjectivity. The object of research involves works of Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, who was one of the first to speak of the fictitious subject. The author especially emphasizes the problem of " the death of God" and ‘the death of man" as the effects or the evidence of the rift. Also, speaking of the essence of this phenomenon, the author calls it kenotic rift. He studies the movement of subjectivity as a movement to the devastation or the movement of liberation from the power of the subject. The author uses the method of introspection and analysis. The author tries to understand the thoughts of Nietzsche not as logical reality but as intuitive knowledge, the understanding of which is based on the intuitive images. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author attempts to analyze the gap in the human existence in terms of the subjectivity and its movements. The idea of a gap between the subject and subjectivity was expressed by proffesor Girenok. But a detailed analysis of the causes and consequences of this gap has not been made. The author tries to involve the problem of the "death of man" and "the death of God" into the research also.

Keywords: depth, surface, Nietzsche, existence, rift, subject, kenosis, subjectivity, consciousness, who

Abstract: The present article is not a research in the classical meaning of the word. The article contains the three philosophical essays written by the author on different topics. Generally speaking, these are the thoughts of the author on the emotional perception of cultural objects and creative inspiration. The author of the article had the goal to withdraw from the usual logic and methodology of scientific research and take a completely new look at the human. The author of the article tries to withdraw from the subject-object dualism that views the consciousness as the split phenomenon. The disadvantage of the scientific point of view seeing human as an object of research the inevitable distortion of facts by postulating the position of the analysis and decomposition of the whole into parts as the established truth. In other words, a researcher defines an object of research based on a very uncertain feature and by doing so, the researcher breaks the integrity which creates the hermeneutic circle. Therefore, anthropological researches always view the human nature as incomplete and always doomed to doubt. The author of the present research makes an attempt to view an action of a researcher as a creative action where the primary structure of the phenomenon is not separated as an object of research but reveals itself in the process of thoughts being dissolved in the emotional perception. In this case the primary structure stops to be universal and becomes real and personal and part of the autorythmia of human activity. As a result, the author refers to the most realized creative action performed by the author and presented in her attempts to work with different literary genres remembering about the goals and purposes of a philosophical and literary experiment. Conclusions whether the author’s attempt was a success are left up to the readers.

Keywords: creativity, self-cognition, autorythmia, literature, philosophy, anthropology, poems, essay, knowledge (cogitation), hermeneutic circle.

Abstract: The subject matter of this research article is the evolution of views of a famous theorist of symbolism Ellis (Lev Kobylinsky) during the most active period (1904–1914) of the most respected Russian literary movement at the beginning of XXth century. Being an ‘Argonaut’ and having quite close relations with Andrei Bely, Emily Metner, Vyacheslav Ivanov and some relations with Alexander Blok, Ellis had very singular personal qualities and demonstrated drastic shifts in his intellectual, philosophical and religious views. That was the reason of his unique marginality. It also caused the Russian elite to feel rather indifferent towards Ellis’ life and creative work. However, marginality always represents extreme conditions that reflect the most typical features of the historical epoch. Therefore it is not only useful but necessary to study the literary heritage left by Ellis. As the author of the article sees it, the most natural method for analyzing Elis’ legacy is the study of his creative work from a certain perspective that would allow to define the most challenging and the most important moments in the biography of the Russian symbolist. Such a perspective can be Ellis’ interest in Dante. Over the decade Ellis had been reviewing and developing his attitude and views on Dante. As a result, Ellis created the cardiogram of ‘swings’ as Andrei Bely called it. On his way to understanding the medieval poet, Ellis dipped into the atmosphere of Soloviev’s philosophy of love, Rosenkreuz mystic dreams and Steiner’s theosophy. Ellis viewed his path to understanding Dante as the ‘path of faith’ and always found the reasons to explain his subjective but profound perception of the author of The Divine Comedy. Ellis changed but never betrayed himself. That was the most intriguing feature of the Russian symbolist. Andrei Bely described it postfactum in his article ‘Why I became a symbolist’.

Keywords: symbolism, Argonaut, marginality, from the point of view of Dante’s studies, Ellis’ ‘swings’, Soloviev’s philosophy of love, Rosicrucianism, theosophy, ‘the path of faith’, intrigue, biography, theorist of symbolism.

Abstract: The article is devoted to Dantean views of Alexander Veselovsky and importance of these ideas for the branches of modern science such as literary and cultural studies as well as their influence on modern Dantean concepts described in Veselovsky’s “new historicism”. Asoyan analyzes and studies Veselovsky’s writings, in particular, his article “Dante and catholic philosophy of those times’ and his review of the article “Dante Alighieri, sein Leben und seine Werke” by Hartwig Floto. Asoyan also comments on Veselovsky’s thesis that “History of literature is nothing else but the history of culture”. Veselovsky’s researches of Dante’s legacy and Italian Renaissance are being viewed from the point of view of modern Russian and foreign Dantean studies. As a result of his research, the author of the article concludes that Veselovsky foresaw the formation of “poetics of culture” as a part of modern humanities as well as many discoveries made by modern researches who have written about Dante. Veselovsky’s publications about Dante reflect the same ideas and concepts as modern Dantean researches and conceptions.

Keywords: Dantean studies, “Dante and catholic philosophy of those times”, “Dante Alighieri, sein Leben und seine Werke” by Hartwig Floto, Italian Renaissance, “Villa Alberti”, legends of the Divine Comedy, history of literature, history of culture, historical poetics, “new historicism”, “poetics of culture”, scope of problems, modern Russian and foreign Dantean studies, Dantean Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ilya Golenishchev-Kutuzov, Igor Belza.

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: Every work of a great artist contains what the author wanted to say and what he could not say but unwittingly mentioned. However, the will and intentions of an artist show themselves mostly in the way the artist develops and composes the thematic material. The term ‘ form of composition’ sounds rather impersonal but based on the analysis of Pushkin’s novel ‘The Shot’ the author shows that the form of a composed text can actually contain the elements allowing us to speak of the connection between the form and the deepest aspects of a personality, - and what is connected with the feeling of Destiny in the end.

Keywords: philology, art, Pushkin, text, composition, proportion, golden proportion, resonance, destiny, language.