Abstract: The object of this research is the editing as an artistic phenomenon in the national scientific context. The subject is the scientific literature about editing within the system of artistic culture. The author examines the phenomenon of editing in musicology. Special attention is given to the analysis of Russian music of the XX century, namely the works of Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and other composers. For the purpose of systematization of the material, the author conducted a branch-wise analysis of the existing literature: film studies, art history, musicology, and other humanitarian sciences. The selected methodology allowed determining the meaningfulness for one or another branch and the background of such interest. A conclusion is made that editing as an artistic phenomenon is widely covered in the works of the scholars. Each author attempts to describe editing from the perspective of philosophical, culturological and technological systems of the XX century. For the first time, based on the sequential analysis, the author traces the gradual process of mastering of this artistic phenomenon by the scientific thought. The scientific novelty also lies in raising the relevant questions that require a new scientific interpretation.

Keywords: literature, theater, cinema, article, research, analysis, artistic creation, editing, music, phenomenon

Abstract: The object of this research is the modern graphic design. The author examines the potential of graphic design at the junction of current information technologies and customary context of methods, means and capabilities of graphic designer. The subject of this research is the impact of interactive media technologies and applied animation upon the modern image of graphic design, in the context of formation of the relevant model of graphic design. The article provides the examples of implementation of the capabilities of expanded and virtual reality into the various spheres of human activity. As most relating to the subject of research, the author reviews the capabilities of virtual environments in such areas ad game industry, museology, tourism and advertising, virtual communication and interactive media. The main conclusion consists in determination of the factors of mass culture and modern technologies that affect the transformation of graphic design. The conducted analysis of interaction of the virtual environments and the “new digital media” with the sphere of graphic design within the context of game design, museum practice, tourism and advertising, allows forecasting the prospects of further development and establishment of the image of graphic design.

Keywords: interfaces, modern technology, interactive media, methods and means, visual communications, graphic design, electronic media, media industry, virtual reality, augmented reality

Abstract: This article examines the phenomenon of tradition in interpretation of the socio-philosophical vector of thought that carries non-academic character and in the scientific literature is attributed as integral traditionalism. The author refers to the fundamental positions of the aforementioned concept that form the conceptual image of tradition within the discourse of the traditionalists, emphasizes the transcendent aspect in this phenomenon, and indicates the proclivity for the original spiritual reality embodied in the authentic tradition. The goal of this work is to describe the potential contained in the integral traditionalism for formulation of the universal definition of tradition. Using the logical-analytical approach alongside the methods of comparative analysis, the author determines the fundamental causes that substantiate the antagonism of the modern world by the successors of integral traditionalism. It is concluded that the attempts to reveal the essence of tradition within the framework of ideological and esoteric context piercing the integral traditionalism are untenable; and the attempts to determine its gnoseological value – intractable. The formulated conclusions allow pointing at the difficulty of using the fundamental positions of the integral traditionalism for the objective-scientific interpretation and definition of the phenomenon of tradition.

Keywords: transcendental, initiation, modernity, metaphysical, esotericism, ideology, Guenon, traditionalism, tradition, regression

Abstract: This article claims that the philosophy of symbolic forms of Ernst Cassirer is an indispensable philosophical-anthropological partner of rhetoric. The author assumes that the rhetoric’s acquisition of Cassirer’s theory of symbolic forms will bring rhetoric outside its dominant interpretation as a theory oriented towards language expression and allow it to fully comply with the broad understanding of rhetoric as a doctrine that explains the creation, establishment and transformation of social meaning. To clarify the extensive understanding of the rhetorical-philosophical-anthropological approach, the author structured their discourse partially on the criticism of recent attempt of Thomas A. Discenna (Discenna, Rhetorica 32/3, 2014) to include E. Cassirer to the rhetorical tradition in the course of analysis of Davos Debates of 1929 between E. Cassirer and M. Heidegger; and partially on explanation of the aspects of Cassirer’s thought that are considered as crucial for the development of rhetorical-philosophical anthropology of social meaning. The main conclusion lies in the thesis that the philosophy of symbolic forms of Cassirer creates the theoretical bases for the modern rhetorical philosophical anthropology as the teaching about the formation of social meaning.

Keywords: philosophy of culture, social meaning, symbolic forms, philosophical anthropology, rhetorical theory, the Davos debate, Heidegger, Cassirer, symbolic function, Swedish philosophy

Abstract: The subject of this research is the theory of interconnections between architecture and tectonics of the XX century and the transformations taking place in social space, and thus, in the individual mental life of a person. The study was conducted based on the works of one of the most prominent representatives of anthropological approach in the architectural philosophy – the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. His philosophical concept Sloterdijk builds through determination of the essence of consciousness of a modern human, which reflects the phenomena of social restructuring along with the transformations in sociopolitical and cultural life. The article examines the analyzed by the philosopher strategies and patterns common to urban development and architectural engineering of the XX century. Methodology contains the descriptive characteristics of P. Sloterdijk’s architectural philosophy in the Russian-language scientific literature; hermeneutic analysis of his works; and comparative analysis of his ideas with the theories of other prominent representatives of the architectural philosophy. The scientific novelty is substantiated by the insufficient knowledge on Sloterdijk’s architectural philosophy in the Russian-language scientific literature. In conclusion, the author systematizes and generalizes Sloterdijk’s key ideas pertinent to interconditionality of architecture of the XX century with the sphere of psychosocial, as well as compares his philosophical concept with the content of theories of other architectural philosophers.

Keywords: capsular architecture, the Immunological theory of architecture, sphere, Le Corbusier, Buckminster Fuller, philosophy of architecture, Sloterdijk, Gaston Bachelar, collector, Psychoanalysis in architecture

Abstract: The subject of this research is the analysis of the impact of ideas of the philosopher and writer Henri Bergson upon the worldview and creative path of Mikhail Prishvin. It is demonstrated that in order to reveal the ontological meanings of reality, M. Prishvin actively uses the most diverse historical, cultural, religious, philosophical, and political concepts, which is testified by the set of the relevant philosophical conclusions presents in the semantic field of his diary notes, publicist and literary texts. The author meticulously analyzes the impact of the ideas of national and foreign thinkers upon the artistic discourse of Mikhail Prishvin. The article applies the method of historical-philosophical reconstruction. The images, symbols and expressions of Prishvin in the artistic works are compared with metatext, which realizes the writer’s philosophemes reconstructed via their correlation with the philosophical texts of Bergson. The scientific novelty consists in the analysis of development of the artistic thought of the writer, who detects in Bolshevism not only the similarity between Marxism and Bergson’s philosophy, but also compares them with the ideas of Christianity, and then places the various images, symbols and concepts upon each other. Combining the opposite ideologemes, M. Prishvin determines the ontological changes of social existence, which were brought by the revolution and are difficult to describe from the worldview perspective alone.

Keywords: reconstruction, metatext, ape-man, human ape, evolution, revolution, Bolshevism, Marxism, Bergson’s, Prishvin