The first complete edition in Russian of a book by one of the pillars of American pragmatism, whose ideas formed the basis of symbolic interactionism. The book raises the most important issues of social and historical knowledge, philosophy of science, issues of the unity of natural science and social knowledge (using the example of the theories of relativity, electromagnetic radiation, atomic structure and the theory of social behavior and sociality). In the perspective of the latest ideas about space and time for that time, the author gives his understanding of the past, present and future, inscribed in his pragmatist concept of experience and theory of action. The book is of interest to specialists in the philosophy of science, knowledge, sociological theory and social psychology.