The philosophy of the present. 2nd edition. Foreign Ministry J.G.

The first complete publication in Russian of the book of one of the pillars of American pragmatism, whose ideas formed the basis of symbolic interactionism. The book raises the most important issues of social and historical knowledge, philosophy of science, issues of the unity of natural scientific and social knowledge (on the example of the theories of relativity, electromagnetic radiation, the structure of the atom and the theory of social behavior and sociality). In the prospect of the latest ideas about space and time, the author gives his understanding of the past, present and future, inscribed in his pragmatist concept of experience and theory of action.

The book is of interest to specialists in the philosophy of science, knowledge, sociological theories and social psychology.