No 1 (2009)

The article presents epistemology, political and ethical standpoints, social-philosophic grounds of the decolonial turn - one of the contemporary alter-modern international projects. It briefly traces the genealogy of the «decolonial option», conceptualizes its latest tendencies and interconnections with other intellectual and social-political models, and considers its future prospects. Particular attention is paid to rethinking of humanities within the decolonial turn.

This article is an attempt at a theoretical substantiation of the proposition that scientific knowledge is naturally communicative. The peculiarities of the scientific language and experimental activity are analyzed in the article. The author pays special attention to the problem how it becomes possible to develop mutual understanding among the scientists.

The subject matter of the paper is a most interesting philosophic phenomenon- theosophy which received a considerable emphasis at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century and greatly influenced viewpoints of the majority of philosophers, writers, musicians and artists. The key point of the article is the author's approach to the problem of close connection between E.P. Blavatskaya's theory and Buddhism. Diverse viewpoints of both famous Russian religious philosophers and buddhologists of that time as well as modern Russian esoteric investigators and scientific papers of E.P. Blavatskaya have been studied. The famous Russian neo-Kantian philosopher I.I. Lapshin study «Philosophy of Inventing and Invention in Philosophy: Introduction to the History of Philosophy» being inside the scope of her basic investigations, the author comes to the conclusion that theosophy is the original form of «philosophic invention» based on the specific usage of various philosophic and religious ideas of Neo-Platonism, Christian mysticism, cabbalistic theories' symbols as well as Buddhism from the point of view of their esoteric content.