Issue #32

Abstract: Gogotishvili L.A. Jacob’s Ladder. Architectonics of Linguo-Philosophical Space / Comp., introd. and notes by I.N. Fridman, ed. by S.V. Fedotova, S.O. Savchuk. — 2nd ed. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2021. — 616 p. The book by Lyudmila Gogotishvili, a student of A.F. Losev, is devoted to the phenomenology of speech and the problem of implied meanings. The work examines the theories of Losev, Bakhtin, Florensky, Shpet, Laruelle. The concept of “adequation” is introduced as the correspondence of linguistic expression to its subject. The book continues the ideas of “Indirect Speaking” and is of interest to philosophers and philologists.
Vdovina G.V. Chimeras in the Forests of Scholasticism. Ens rationis and Objective Being. — St. Petersburg: SPbPDA Publishing House; Herzen RSPU Publishing House, 2020. — 440 p. The monograph examines the concept of ens rationis (“being in reason”) in medieval and post-medieval scholasticism. Mental fictions, logical and mathematical objects, universals, negations are considered. The texts of 17th-century scholastics (Suárez, Vásquez, Quiros, Peinado, Arruval) are analyzed. The book fills a gap in knowledge about the development of early modern philosophy.
Zaitsev I.V. Sufism Without Borders: Manuscripts from the Library of Sheikh Ziyautdin Gumushkhanawi. — Moscow: Marjani Publishing House, 2020. — 372 p. A study of the life and teachings of Sheikh Ziyautdin Gumushkhanawi (1813–1893), a description of his library. Manuscripts on Sufism are analyzed, including the works of the sheikh himself. The book contains translations of treatises and facsimiles of manuscripts.
Ulitchev I.I. The Doctrine of Personality in the Theological Personalism of V.N. Lossky: Origins and Specificity. — Moscow: PSTGU Publishing House, 2021. — 128 p. The monograph is devoted to the doctrine of personality in the theological personalism of V.N. Lossky. The origins of his ideas in the patristic tradition and Russian religious philosophy, the specifics of the understanding of hypostasis, deification and sobornost are analyzed.
Shmonin D.V. The Mystery of the Answer: An Introduction to Rational Theology. — St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Orthodox Theological Academy Publishing House, 2021. — 460 p. The monograph presents theology as a subject area described in concepts compatible with science. The classification of knowledge, the historical concreteness of Christian theological thinking, and the metaphysical horizon of knowledge are examined. The author develops a project for the theology of education.
Bazhenov M.V. The Experience of Shame in the “Mirror” of Social Theories. — St. Petersburg: Aleteiya, 2021. — 504 p. The monograph describes the human experience of shame in the language of various social theories.