The idea of completion or the end of history, to which the thinkers of the past has been accessed, is considered in the article. The author shows that this idea is in tune with our time. For this reason some accumulated experience in attempt to solve this problem can help us to understand what is happening. But it is necessary to define more exactly beforehand the notions we use today to interpret adequately the ideas of the past.

The article was retracted on October 20, 2019.

The article is devoted to the present stage of globalization process, attempts to estimate its strategy and methods. In this regard the author considers the condition of consciousness of modern society, the place of the person in the globalized world and defines its possible future in comparison with the existing big megaproject of human being.

The aim of the paper is to elucidate the meaning of the fragment (12rM) of Giordano Bruno’s tract On magic (1589-1590), where a thesis about a global se-miotic transformation that once occurred in history is postulated. According to it, that transformation consisted in supplanting hieroglyphic writing by an alphabetic script and had extremely harmful cognitive and cultural consequences for humankind. The philosophical sources in which key ideas grounding this thesis originate are found out. The author also explores Bruno’s historiosophical views and analyzes his interpretation of an image of ancient Egypt and of the essence of hieroglyphics developed in his works. It is argued that this interpretation significantly differed from the version dominating in the humanistic circles in the end of the 15^th - first half of the 17^th centuries.

The article makes an attempt to identify the similarities and determine the relationship between the notions of «archetype» and «frame» used in analytical psychology, anthropology, philosophy, analytic philosophy, cognitive linguistics. Building on substantive provisions of the theory of analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, representing archetypes as the possibility of the initial images of the human unconscious and the theory of frames that knowledge of the world consist of structural cells, data structures, scenario matrices - frames - a kind of engrams, the authors carried out a comparative analysis of the «archetype» and «frame» notions and concluded that certain similarities can be drawn between both notions with a high degree of correlation.

The article is dedicated to the thinking and language in A. Piatigorski’s philosophy. The issue is considered in the context of history of linguistic theories and history of phonology. The work may be interesting to philosophers, philologists and for anyone who is interested in the studying of thinking.

The process of emergence of plastic value in art is considered in the article: the plastic value is not born as a result of copying reality, but it is generated by a spirit, which in life-like plastic images returns to itself. Plastic art values were created only by those Soviet artists who, like M. Nesterov and A. Platonov, found the true plot of the reality. On the contrary, an attempt to deceive the logic of reality destroyed images of art, despite their external credibility and plasticity (L. Leonov).

The article is devoted to the analysis of links between the philosophical thought and the art by the example of music. The author demonstrates that the analysis of this problem it is not possible to ignore the personality of the philosopher. The author argued this statement comparing philosophical views of such thinkers as Karl Popper, from the one hand, and Gabriel Marcel, from the other. The problems of the artistic means of the philosophical expression like those which characterized the music (e.g. intonation of the discourse) stay in the center of author’s attention.

The interaction of three types of time (musical, physical and astronomical) is considered in the paper. By physical time, we mean the frequency of oscillation of sounding body, by astronomical time, we mean the duration of processes which measured by hours. By musical time, we mean the rhythm, tempo and meter in the aspect of their aesthetical sense. The forms of presence of physical and astronomical time in the music text are researched on the examples from the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Witold Lutoslawski. The hypothesis about existence of several types of time is formulated.

The possibilities of music to bring human being to the Absolute, God are revealed in the article. The historical evidences of using music to establish the connection between human being and the Supreme Power are comprehended by the author. The musical material which provides such a connection is concretized.

The author strives to identify the relationship between the original form of philosophical and metaphorical expression of the social position of Akinwande Oluwole «Wole» Soyinka, a world famous poet, writer, playwright and philosopher of Africa, and his categorical rejection of the idealization of the stagnant past.