This article рфму иуут attemptув to unravel the mystery of the fatal letter to Strakhov to Tolstoy.
An original thinker and an outstanding representative of Russian religious philosophy of the first half of the twentieth century, Berdyaev presented the theme of creativity in the form of a modern spiritual manifesto. In his numerous works he outlined the contours of a new spirituality, distinguishing in it metaphysical and sociocultural perspectives.
The paper traces the interrelationships between existential psychology and mainstream academic psychology of personality in history and in our days. The critical points of their intersection are traced: “nonclassical breakthrough” of the late 1920s-early 1930s, “humanistic revolution” of the 1960s and the subsequent transformation of psychological science in the 1970s, birth and growth of positive psychology in the 2000s. The analysis reveals growing convergence of these two lines which took the most pointed shape recently, along with the growing challenge of uncertainty in the present-day world. The basis for the integration of existential psychology into academic science is the emerging “functional paradigm” of psychological explanation, based on the primacy of non-stop autoregulated individual-world interaction that presents an alternative to the reactive-dispositional paradigm that has been prevailing in psychology through the 20th century.
As the science of linguistics developed, the attitude towards language and thought interrelation altered from admitting their identity to stating their total independence. The article traces the change of these views in the works of different scientists. Special attention is given to the influence of Marxist philosophy on solving this issue in the Soviet period. Some judgements of Soviet scientists are shown to be erroneous. Modern interpretation of language and thought interrelation is discussed.