Mikhail Epstein. All essays. Volume 2. From America

In two volumes known culturologist and philosopher Mikhail Epstein includes essays written by him for 27 years, covering the experience of living on two continents. This experience reflections on Russian and American cultures, their ways of interaction. For the first time collected together, these texts form a kind of cartography of cultural boundaries and historical boundaries: between Russia and America, between Russia and the USSR, between communism and capitalism, between the daily minutiae and poetic symbols, between private life and Imperial consciousness, between the national nature and sverhtehnologichny future. The book includes two papers on the theory of the essay and assesme. Rare universal coverage, depth of intellectual subjects, emotional tension and drama of thought, the alignment with the most acute problems of our time and with eternal philosophical themes - all this makes this edition encyclopedia seismische genre, creative and cognitive capabilities.