This is the first of a series of books published for the 100th anniversary of the remarkable Russian philosopher, philologist, researcher of musical and artistic creativity.  The entire publication includes the early works of the thinker - works of the 20s and 30s that have long become inaccessible to the reader (the so-called octagons).  as well as unpublished (“The Thing and the Name”, etc.) and works of the 50s, when, after a 30-year silence, the philosopher again received a readership.