The twentieth century witnessed heyday of the Russian-Soviet Arabic and Islamic studies, whose academic school created by Victor von Rosen and his disciple Ignaty Krachkovsky had flourished already in the late Russian empire and survived the Soviet period. Its representatives included many outstanding yet controversial figures, whose scientific biography still needs to be rethought in ...

This article is devoted to the critical arguments against orientalism put forward by the French mystic Réne Guénon (1886–1951) in his three books: A General Introduction to the Study of Hindu Teachings (1921), East and West (1924), Man and His Realization according to Vedanta (1925), and in the paper Eastern Metaphysics (1925). These arguments have ...

Fazliddin Muhammadiev’s Dar on dunyo (“In the other world”), first published in Tajik in 1965 and later translated to Russian, Uzbek, and many other languages, is the only known fictionalized account of the ḥajj produced in the Soviet Union. Based on a trip made by the author in 1963, the novel provided the Soviet reader a rare glimpse ...

Globalization reveals two opposite trends in international constitutional law, towards both integration and fragmentation, producing different views on future normative architecture of regional legal unions and their governance. The problematique of these debates includes correlation between international law and national constitutional law, theoretical grounds of postnational constitutionalism and changing interpretation of sovereignty. The practical importance of these debates is demonstrated by competing visions of the ...

The book discusses the principal aspects of description of the East in the Western scholarly discourse as well as in art and literature. An analysis of the interpretations of the East by the West (and vice versa) and their historical evolution has emerged as especially important in the light of ongoing globalization, which has triggered ...

The current debate about the prospects of the new global legal order reveals the importance of the political philosophy of international relations, international law and changing institutional constructions of the global governance. The formation of transnational norms and institutions is a very controversial process with regards to such issues as the concept of global and European security; conflicts between values ...

The importance of the value aspect in Russian legislation and the mechanisms for its implementation in modern geopolitical conditions are analyzed in the article. It is noted that the change in value paradigms in a number of countries predetermined the  adoption  of  measures  to  ensure  national  security  through  the  preservation  of  Russian identity and the traditional way of life of Russian society. Special attention is paid to the fundamentals of state ...

The article presents an overview of the development of research on Western esotericism in the works of the younger generation of scientists in 2010-2021, the works of E. Asprem, Y. Strube, L. Saif are primarily distinguished. At the beginning, a general outline of the current state of esotericism research is given, then the analysis of ...

The twelfth volume of the “Caucasian Anthology” yearbook of 2020 contains articles on regional history and ethnology, studies of customary law in the Caucasus. The volume presents new materials from the Russian and Georgian archives on the history of the missionary activity of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Caucasus in the second half of ...

The book is dedicated to the prominent Russian orientalist B.L. Riftin (1932–2012) and is designed to reflect the diversity of his academic interests and areas of professional activity. The research collected in the book is based on materials from the traditional and modern cultures of China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Mongolia and continues the ...

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This paper examines the reproducibility of 'bullshit jobs' in the context of new educational models and the cult of measurement. This cult of measurement arises existential problems which are explicated in this paper in the understanding of the phenomenon of 'bullshit jobs' in terms of the assertion of the equality of the categories of 'bullshit' ...

Olga M. Medushevskaya established the theoretical basis for the study of historical anthropology and revealed the relationship between historical anthropology and the comparative research methods of humanities and historical materials. Her collection of essays has been published in four volumes: including philosophy of history and cognitive theory of historical sciences, historical sources theory, methods  and ...

В книге рассматриваются этапы развития русской социологии XIX – начала XX в., показаны ее роль в общественной борьбе и влияние на мировую науку. Основное внимание уделяется ведущим течениям социологической мысли и таким ее наиболее ярким представителям, как Б.Н. Чичерин, К.Д. Кавелин, С.А. Муромцев, М.М. Ковалевский, Н.П. ПавловСильванский, П.Н. Милюков, Л.И. Петражицкий, Н.И. Кареев, Питирим Сорокин ...

The author of the article focuses on the problem of correlation between the paradigms of “linguistic”, “iconic” and “visual” turns associated with contemporary art. The text discusses the history of the terms, analyzes the specifics of each of these turns, reveals their role and significance in art, history and culture, and provides specific examples of ...

After postmodernism’s key theorists abandoned the topic (Fredric Jameson) or even allowed that postmodernism is no longer exists (Linda Hutcheon), various concepts under the umbrella term “post-postmodernism” have begun to emerge since 2000. One of the last intellectual alternatives to post-modernism was the metamodernism proposed by two Europeans, Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker. In 2010 they published a ...

The narrator-protagonist of Aleksandr Ivanov’s novella “Stereoscope. A Twilight Story” (1909) stumbles upon a portal into a three-dimensional photographic world—the uncanny “ bygone spaces” that cause him to veer between “ fear” and nostalgic “rapture.” These emotions are contradictory but also inseparable, which becomes clear when the narrator’s experiences are read through the lens of ...

Человеческая деятельность есть непрерывный процесс коммуникации: порождения, обмена и преобразования ценностей и смыслов. Семантика и коммуникация являются неделимыми аспектами одних и тех же многообразных, но единых когнитивных процессов взаимоотображения мира и языка. В то же время, как правило, эти два аспекта информационных процессов в теоретическом аспекте оказываются разделены: семиотика и семантика занимаются изучением знаков и ...

Публикуемые в настоящем сборнике работы исследователей из России, Японии, Южной Кореи, Тайваня и других стран представляют широкий круг вопросов по русской культуре XIX–XXI вв. Статьи сборника отображают многообразие спектра явлений культуры и касаются самых разных областей: идентичности и межкультурных контактов, литературы, языка, истории и изобразительных искусств. Книга адресована филологам, а также широкому кругу заинтересованных читателей. ...

Globalisation has provoked a deep transformation in international law, political affairs and governance with contradictory consequences. It has stimulated the cosmopolitan project of global constitutionalism, transnational integration and the unification of democratic standards. However, it also resulted in the fragmentation of international affairs, the deterioration of constitutional democracy and a feeling of a growing shortage ...

Human agency, implying, from sociology’s perspective, proactive or even transformative individual behaviour upon the social world (or “social structures” as sociologists call them), remains one of the central concepts and problems for both social science and practice. Current stage of societal evolution, de-structuration, makes individual agency especially important for both individual and collective well-being. In ...

В книге обсуждается проблема человеческой целостности через призму ответственно поступающего субъекта в модусе вопрошания к результатам его действия. Человек описывается как сложноорганизованное существо, способное к рекурсивному самообновлению и отвечающее на вновь возникающие вызовы в ситуации экзистенциального разрыва и утраты определенности в вопросах кто и что есть человек. Концепт прокреации в веере значений от воспроизводства человека ...

В книге на большом фактическом материале новых источников и интернациональной литературы раскрывается проблема конституционализма как явления мирового и российского исторического процесса. В монографии рассматривается становление современной демократии как социальной и политической системы и теории перехода от традиционного общества к массовому; механизм власти и типология форм правления в ходе крупнейших европейских революций; российская модель конституционализма в ...

This article summarizes main facts about the role, development and achievements of the prestigious Russian and international academic journal — “Comparative Constitutional Review” from its creation till 30-th year anniversary in 2023. Coming into life in the period of dramatic transition from Communist dictatorship to democracy in Eastern Europe and Russia, the Journal clearly announced ...