The article is devoted to the diacritical hermeneutics of Richard Kearney, where the way of thinking of God “after God” becomes adescription of God as God Who may be. The possibility is interpreted from post-metaphysical poetic perspective. The author argues that reflection on the category of possibility in the thinking of God allows to find a third way: between the onto-theology and negative theology.

On the basis of Husserl’s lectures “Idea of phenomenology”, the article deals with some key features of the phenomenological theory of knowledge. The author reveals the main problem (clarifying the relationship between the act of knowledge, meaning, and object), the main goal (the study of meanings and connections a priori) and the criterion of knowledge (evidence as self-givenness) of the phenomenological theory of knowledge, and considers how and in what measure Husserl is able to establish a correlation between these three aspects. A prime focus of the analysis is the relation between the phenomenological analysis of consciousness and the phenomenological grounding of the essential intuition.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the actor-network theory presented in works of French sociologist Bruno Latour from the point of view of reception of basic onto-epistemological conceptions of Friedrich Nietzsche. Central point of the article is opposition between speech in terms of forces and speech in terms of substances which are not only competing but also stipulating for each other in the network of interpretation of scientific researches. Latour’s theory is presented as consistent implementation of Nietzschean conception of will to power in present intellectual conditions with due regard for proper updating.

The article is devoted to the idea of the original thesis of John Rawls’s theory of justice as a stage in the development of a formal justification of moral precepts in political philosophy. The decision-making procedure in ethics proposed by Rawls in his early works is analysed.

In article the basic maintenance John Rawls’s concept of fairness is considered. Also influence of the concept of fairness on aspects of life of citizens, societies and the states is traced.

The article deals with the specifics of sociological analysis of the consumption phenomenon in the socio-cultural practices of everyday life, caused by the system of values orientations. Particular attention is paid to disclosure of the symbolic nature of the modern consumption, forming a “reified” signs / symptoms of the membership of particular social status group and socio-cultural identity.

This article discusses issues related to the development of small business in Russia during the economic crisis.

In the highly competitive business world, companies must count on the professional staff. The training and development of the staff take increasingly greater place in human resource management. Based on the analysis of scientific literature and personal involvement in the process of personnel training, the author makes an attempt to compare the business training and social technologies, specifies types of training and determines conditions of their success.

The article deals with the father image representation in contemporary Russian movies. It is found that the image of father in movies has a greater positive connotation and matches nearly all the features of a “good” father. These features are human qualities (such as kindness, sincerity, honesty, openness) and specific fathers’ qualities: the responsibility for the family and children, the willingness to do everything to maintain home comfort, etc. At the same time all the films draw a bleak family life as a whole.

In this article, fashion is considered as a social and cultural phenomenon. By the example of a group of British artists of the mid XIX century, the author proves the legitimacy of the existence of fashion in the art and explains why prerafaelizm for several times became fashionable trend.

“Worker and Collective Farm Girl” as a significant symbol of the Soviet past and the “standard of socialist realism” has its complicated biography in Moscow urban space. In this article, author examines the performance and perception of the monument “Worker and Collective Farm Girl”, based on the concept of the politics of memory. Author analyses some changing vectors symbolic loading of the monument over the past decade, as well as the mismatch of meanings generated by the monument and located beside it the museum and exhibition centre.

This article defines the place, significance and function of the park in the cultural environment of the city. It reveals the history and modernity of one of Muscovites favorite parks - Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure.

The article raises an issue of the relevance in approaching the art development, especially the theatre one, in terms of the theory of cycles. A number of researches (with such remarkable persons as N. Danilevsky, O. Spengler, P. Sorokin among them) adhered to that theory. It allows to conceptualize the process of changes of the theatre directing art during generations as a whole, with some common eventas the beginning and sum of development tendencies as the end. This end breaks initial intentions, thus bringing art directing to the start of the new cycle.

The article defines horror genre in cinema embracing necessary features. Critically analyses the semantic-syntactic theory of genres, inspired by the works of Rick Altman, proves its efficiency in cinema studies.

Audio and visual formation of non-fiction television and documentary and experimental cinema in Canada of 1950-1960s can be represented as series of similar processes. These processes provoked with the active competition of television and cinematography segments of the media industry. Development and implementation of the new equipment were parallel to the search for new means of aesthetic impact on the target audiences.

The article is dedicated to one aspect of researching elaborated landscape backgrounds, appeared in Russian icon painting in the second half of the XVII century. New forms replaced traditional nature images on the icons. The landscape of a new type can play different compositional role in icons placed there as follows: landscapeas a background; landscape, which includes hagiographical scenes; landscape, containing the main subject; landscape fragment in anarch of doorway architecture. Depending on the compositional role, connection of the main subject of the icon with a landscape changes.

The article is about complex synthetic compositions in Christian art and influence of this development to the art program of abbot Suger to invent central portal of the Western facade of the Saint-Denis basilica. The author distinguishes different types of the synthetic compositions in the medieval French monumental art. He considers that complex synthetic composition of the central portal of the Western facade is the top point in the sequence of the synthetic programs impacted with Cluny abbey, as eminent transition from visionary Romanesque art to didactic clarity of Gothic portals.

Article is devoted to the separation of a sound recording from the structural integrity of the knowledge model of ontology of the cinema, and to forming its separate ontology, which could to be considered as primary for ontogenesis of sound recording, along with preliminary consideration of possible ontological functions of sound recording invarious situational contexts.