Vol 17, No 3-4 (2017)

The article is devoted to the theme of Other (inter-subjectivity) in the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl. The causes of occurrence of this problem in modern philosophical discourse are highlighted and discussed. The author takes the assumption that the founder of phenomenology tried to analyze the non-classical problem and its solution by means of the European philosophical classics.

The article is devoted to the study of intuitive knowledge, which has philosophical intentionality. Key philosophical concepts that define ontologization of intuitive cognition are analyzed. The main emphasis of the research is on the study of the systemic status of intuitive knowledge in the history of philosophical thought, as well as the ratio of intuition and intelligence.

The purpose of this work is to analyze the ideas of Russian postmodernism reflected in the publicism. The author relies on the method of philosophical reflection; with the help of historical-genetic method he reveals the origin and development of postmodernism in the Russian philosophical publicism, and also considers the perception of postmodernist concepts in the modern philosophical publicism. As a result, the author determines the main features of Russian postmodernism and distinguishes the important function of philosophical publicism, actualized in the works of Russian publicists, - the function of predicting the future, especially the ways of Russian social and historical development.

The article deals with the specifics and dynamics of the values of contemporary Russian student-age population in the conditions of public transformations that took place over the last two decades. The degree of influence of social changes on the value consciousness of young people is described. Based on the analysis of the results of empiric researches, the basic groups of values of students are determined.

In this article the reasons of different proportion of objective and subjective assessment components in the moral and legal consciousness are analyzed. It was found that the main reasons are differences in the range of the impact on the spiritual sphere and on the practical life, specific features of the moral and the law as the forms of spiritual culture.

The article presents the results of a theoretical study, in the focus of which is the analysis of the relationship between the concepts of «power of discourse», «discourse of power», and «sports discourse». Sport is explored as a universal ideology of political (power) discourse in the context of influence on the consciousness of people and communities.

The main thesis characterizing Baudrillard’s creativity comes down to the fact that the western civilization throughout last century made a number of decisive steps in order to reach the highest degree of perfection and to be exempted from factors which could prevent it. According to Baudrillard, for this purpose the “system” begins to push out poverty, diseases, death, labeling all those things which reveal the harsh realities of life as inappropriate and unacceptable. The initial reality more and more recedes facing “hyper-reality”, and the western civilization becomes “hyper-civilization”. There is a substitution of “natural” reality by more attractive forms of reality; the initial sense of things disappears under the pressure of colorable models. With the bourgeoisie eminence as the dominating class, the era of expertocracy and simulacra begins.

In this article we make an attempt to understand how the bodily practices of individuals interacting with each other have a direct impact on the process of constructing a social space. We also have a closer look at the category of compatibility as one of the fundamental and inalienable attributes of social relations in general and social space in particular.