The book is a collection of articles by the famous philosopher, culturologist, publicist, writer G. Pomerants. This includes works from the 80s and 90s, with several returns to the past. The main sections of the book are "Experiences of free thought" ("Breakthrough through ideology" | "Philosophy of an idiot" | "Beyond common sense" | "Integral knowledge and pluralism of theories" | "Docta ignorantia"), "Literature and art" (articles about Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Daniil Andreev, Sinyavsky, Samoilov, Chichibabin, Tarkovsky and others), "Images of Culture" ("Passionate one-sidedness and dispassionate spirit" | "Milestones" in the context of modernity" | "European freedom and Russian will" | "Destructive tendencies in Russian culture"| "Meta-artistic thinking in cultural studies").Publisher's layout saved in a4.pdf format.