“The Essence of Time” is a series of video lectures by Sergei Kurginyan, a political and public figure, director, philosopher and political scientist, president of the International Public Foundation “Experimental Creative Center”. The lectures were broadcast on the Internet from February to November 2011 on the websites www.kurginyan.ru, www.eot.su. Unusual, intellectually deep and sharp, emotionally charged and bearing a vivid imprint of the author’s personality, this series of lectures aroused enormous interest among the audience and became “ starting push" and at the same time a conceptual basis for the formation of a virtual club of supporters of S. Kurginyan "The Essence of Time". The book "The Essence of Time" contains transcripts of all 41 lectures of the cycle. Each of them contains Sergei Kurginyan’s reflections on the essence of the current time, its metaphysics, dialectics and their reflection in key aspects of current Russian and global politics. The central theme of the cycle is the search for ways and mechanisms to overcome the systemic global human impasse in all its dimensions: from metaphysical to epistemological, ethical, anthropological. And, as a result, a socio-political, technological and economic-economic impasse. The author, showing the contours of this impasse and emphasizing the need to understand the depth, complexity and tragedy of the growing problems, proves that it is Russia, due to the peculiarities of its historical destiny, that retains the chance to find and offer the world a way out of the impasse. But it is possible to realize the chance only if for a “critical mass” of active people with a common deep understanding of the problems this becomes the highest meaning of life and activity. S. Kurginyan’s ideas found a response, the virtual club “Essence of Time” is growing into a broad social movement “Essence of Time” time." And before our eyes it is becoming a real political force.