The work brought to your attention was prepared by professors of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, teaching a course on the history of modern foreign philosophy as a teaching aid for undergraduate and graduate students. Completed with the support of the Soros Foundation, within the framework of the “Renewal of Humanitarian Education in Russia” program, it was recommended as a textbook for universities and published in an extremely limited edition in 1994, which was, in accordance with the rules of the Soros Foundation, free of charge and completely distributed for Russian universities.The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.