Abstract: A need in a certain world view is typical for all humans. The world view remains in force even when the consciousness collapses. However, ‘insanity’ becomes somewhat attractive and starts to play with the mind without the fear to break it. Researchers reveal unknown layers of consciousness and even start to explore them. Noteworthy, that many metaphysical topics take is directly to the edge of consciousness.

Keywords: philology mind, psyche, insanity, Shakespeare, Brodsky, apocalypse, creation, paradox, character.

Abstract: The article contains a philosophical analysis of the opposition between the shapeless and the form in Far Eastern esthetics compared to the opposition between the form and contents in the West. The author of the article studies concepts of classical Japanese esthetics describing the ‘body experience’, i.e. experience of integral knowledge of an individual about the inner order of the world continuum. The author also makes a conclusion about esthetics being the main component in the cultural identity of Japanese people.

Keywords: philology, form, shapeless, Japanese esthetics, cultural identity, Buddhism, Taoism, artistic tradition, Noh theatre, Heian period.

Abstract: Discovery of the connection between Pushikin’s ‘Don Juan’s stories’ in the Ushakovsky Album and Eugene Onegin allows to see the first chapters of the verse novel and biographies there in a different light. Based on the conception of dialectical unity between reality and poetry in Pushkin’s creative work, the author of the article offers a new name for Pushkin’s ‘hidden love’. This name is well-know in Pushkin studies but it casts the role of Cinderella. To the author’s opinion, creative work of the Poet during this period makes her candidacy a priority among all the others in Pushkin studies.

Keywords: philology, Alexander Pushkin, ‘hidden love’, Eugene Onegin, poesies, poetry and activity, mystery, name, Ushakovsky Album, Odessa.

Abstract: The author of the given article analyzes post-war late works by Martin Heidegger in which the philosopher addressed to the concept of ‘poetic thinking’. Heidegger’s thoughts on the matter combined both the Western and Northern philosophies that reveals the mystery of human existence and being and allows to get closer to the Truth. Special method of poetic questioning is the way of return to the primary meaning. Martin Heidegger’s ideas had a great influence on his successors who continued to work on ‘restoring’ the significance of the poetic word as a philosophical category.

Keywords: philology, poetry, Martin Heidegger, poetic thinking, philosophy, ontology, being, truth, phenomenology, hermeneutics.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the interpretation of the last work by a Soviet philosopher Nikolay Trubkinov in which he describes his meetings with some mystic creature he named Zephie. The author of the article tries to reveal the existential meaning of Trubnikov’s work and views Trubnikov’s text as the document showing human way to understanding his personal identity. The author of the article provides an existential analysis of Trubnikov’s work viewed as the reflection of the philosopher’s inner world. Analysis starts from the zero reference point – the point of absurdity. It is the point where the author’s Self is vague and floating along the flow of social life. However, such vague and floating Self gets centered in a non-factual event of the divine origin. May events from the philosopher’s real life are viewed in comparison with this non-factual reference point. The very high point is the chapter ‘Revelation on Patmos’ where the philosopher describes his own experience of seeing the Holy City. The main conflict here is the conflict between the Good and the Evil, between the human and animalistic.

Keywords: philology, Trubnikov, philosophy, existential, interpretation, divinity mystic, Self, guilt, Sophia.

Abstract: This is the abstract from Velikovsky’s book ‘In Search for Lost Meaning. Essays on tragic humanism in France’ publishing in 2012. In his book Velikovsky discusses the phenomenon of tragic humanism in Sartre’s plays.

Keywords: philology, tragic, humanism, Sartre, France.

Abstract: The abstract describes religious life of London during Victorian age, religious tolerance and attitude of different social circles towards religious life. The abstract also contains the review of religious theory and experience back in those times.

Keywords: philology, Victorian age, English Catholics, Roman Catholic Church, Quakers, spiritualism, Judaism, Broad Church, Low Church, Dickens.

Abstract: A Signal Spilled Out of a Thousand of Horns: This is the review of Igor Stavinsky’s book ‘Chronics. Poetics’ published in St. Petersburg in 2012. The book contains the two works by Igor Stavinsky, ‘Chronics of my Life’ written in 1935 and ‘Musical Poetics’ written in 1939. A Mind Materialized in Beautiful Sounds: This is the review of Maria Lobanova’s book ‘Theosophist. Theurgist. Mystic. Magician: Alexander Skryabin and his Time’ published in Moscow in 2012.

Keywords: philology, chronics, Igor Stavinsky, poetics, esthetics, theology, Alexander Skryabin, art, symbolism.

Abstract: This is the parody of the three poems: A. Toropov from his Selected Poems ‘Biblical Tunes’, S. Isaev’s ‘Build the Apiary Before the Kingdom Comes…’ and V. Korobkov’s ‘Epitaph of the Water Melon’.

Keywords: philology, poetry, parody, response