France is used to considering itself the intellectual center of the world, a place where universal values of reason are cultivated. Today this idea is experi...

Most people, when asked what they are most afraid of, answer: “I’m not afraid of anything.” This answer is not true, since every person at one time or anothe...

The proposed publication draws a new angle on the creative work of the author, who does not need introductions or recommendations. When Sartre was called up ...

The novel “Rubber Bands,” written in 1953, is one of the first works of the French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet (born 1922), now considered a classic example o...

The book contains materials from an international conference organized at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University in Dece...

The collective monograph presents the works of the participants of the I International Conference on Comparative Studies of National Cultures “Edgar Poe, Cha...

Inner experience / Trans. from French, afterword and comments by S. L. Fokin. - St. Petersburg: Axioma, Mithril, 1997. - 336 p. (Critical Library) The main p...

Philosopher Rene Descartes, author of the famous “Discourse on Method,” is usually presented as a knight of pure reason and a meticulous rationalist. However...