Books
Academic textbooks and research monographs to read online.
Glass Bead Games
Fantasies in the Manner of Hesse. “Strange Convergences”. An Introduction to Paradoxology
Nine rounds of the Game inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel “The Glass Bead Game”: “strange convergences” of mathematics and poetry, music and philosophy that help to see the beauty of mathematics and the wisdom of music.
Introduction to Logic
A Course of Lectures and Materials for Practical Classes
Lectures on the origins and problems of classical logic and its philosophical and cultural aspects, with topics beyond the traditional course: the contradictory nature of motion, the problem of truth, metamathematics and Gödel's theorem.
Pushkin and the Western European Philosophical Tradition
A monograph on the philosophical side of Pushkin's legacy: the poet's evolution from French scepticism to German idealism, Pushkin and classical German philosophy, Pushkin and Goethe.
History of European Culture
An Introduction to Cultural Studies
A textbook introducing the main epochs of European culture as stages of a single continuous historical process. The culture of each epoch is presented in the unity of its artistic and scientific aspects.
Ethics and Aesthetics
The Legacy of the West. A History of Beauty and Goodness
A textbook that joins ethics and aesthetics into a single course, built on the unity of goodness, truth and beauty, from Antiquity to the age of Romanticism.
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