Первопонятия. Ключи к культурному коду

This book follows the pattern of such well-known anthologies of concepts as Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy (1945) and Raymond Williams’s Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1976). However, this book is not intended to outline a particular theme or worldview (whether a mystical philosophy or politics of culture), but rather to frame the issue itself of concepts as instruments of intellectual creativity. What problems and riddles do they pose to our thought-process, what explosive paradoxes do they encompass, and what theories and hypotheses evolve from them?

The author is the well-known Russian-American cultural scholar, critical thinker, and linguist Mikhail N. Epstein, professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University (Atlanta, US). This book is the result of his many years of multidisciplinary work on issues of language and thought. His other books include A Constructive Dictionary of the Humanities, From Knowledge to Creativity, Poetry and Superpoetry, Postmodernism in Russia, The Phoenix of Philosophy, Ideas against Ideocracy, and a number of monographs and articles translated into twenty-four languages.