The phenomenon of the image: genesis, ontology, functioning in the media space. Belousova Yu.

The book of Yu. V. Belousova explores the concepts of the image in philosophy, from the theory of recalling Plato to the phenomenology of E. Husserl, which turns to the consciousness of the individual and to the image in this mind. The ideas about the image of existentialists are analyzed in detail, the epistemological aspect of the image related to the semiotic and linguistic means of expression, and the communication aspect of the image as an iconic means of communication, the phenomenon of media reality is revealed. The author shows that the image is a construct of consciousness, a means of communication, a system of codes and the text transmitted to another translated in the intersubjective field; At the same time, the media image is the image of a “second reality”, a construct made by mass media.

Such a designer is the image of Protestants and Protestantism. The author clearly shows and analyzes various aspects of the functioning of the image of a Protestant in the media space of Russian society, both historically and on the material of our time.