Prevention. The keys to the cultural code. Epstein M.

The book discusses the primary for the culture of first -rate - a kind of universal universals that are widely used, but can hardly be determined and unambiguous interpretation. This is, for example, about life and fate, about love and desire, about death and immortality, o authorities and people, about real and possible. The author sets himself the task of revealing the game of each concept, the wealth of his meanings, his mental horizon, the variety of contexts where it can be inscribed. For this, a wide range of philosophical sources is attracted and many examples from fiction are given. These units of language and thoughts that are extremely capacious in meaning have power over public consciousness and determine the being of a person in culture.

Mikhail Naumovich Epstein-Russian-American philosopher, culturalist, literary critic, essay, essayist, laureate of the premiums of Andrei Bely, London Institute of Social Inventions, International Assembly Competition (Berlin-Weimar), Liberty (New York). Professor of the University of Emory (USA), author of forty books and many articles and essays, translated into twenty -six foreign languages.