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... German tradition and proposed an original project of his own, and then I examine the theory of Ernst Cassirer, an outstanding representative of Neo-Kantianism who in the later period of his work proposed considering the phenomena of the humanities to be symbolic forms closest to the spontaneity of the biological. The common feature of the approaches of the two philosophers is their attempt to preserve the integrity of cognition which is destroyed by mathematisation of the common denominator (ultimate ...

Based on some of the states of Sergey Zenkin’s article, I describe the relationship between affect and symbol. Affect has two sides — cognitive and non-cognitive. The latter manifests itself in unconscious reactions. Conscious affect is regulated by the communicative situation and the sociocultural environment. Sergey Zenkin describes two systems of ...

... associated with its history, intentional or unintentional plans of builders, representations of power and practices of residents, revealing archaic or pseudo-archaic elements in the city structure. The article focuses on Yerevan as a space of multiple symbolic layers, conflicts and re-significations. The authors trace how in the Armenian capital throughout the 20 th and 21 st centuries there was a deliberate displacement of some signs by others — from the demolition of religious and Soviet architectural ...

... regulators of tour narratives, the article highlights the process of socialization, the social context of the excursion itself, where group dynamics come into play, as well as institutional control. The study demonstrates that the guide is a bearer of symbolic power, manifested in the ability to ascribe meaning to objects and events, and, thereby, shape public opinion. In this sense, the guide moves beyond the role of a mere narrator, assuming the function of a creator of meanings. Guided tours perform ...

... analysis consists of literary con­texts containing the lexeme ‘organ’, recorded in the National Corpus of the Russian Language and dating from the 18th century to the 20th century. The study aims to identify the main tendencies in the figurative and symbolic use of the word ‘organ’, as well as its individual authorial reinterpretation by poets representing successive literary movements, including the Baroque, Classicism, Sentimentalism, and Romanticism. Particular attention is paid to the process ...

... relations with local population supported by the incorporation of them in the system of condition landholding. These relations implied, from the one hand, the representation by the Order its own status as a collective ruler, and from the other hand, symbolic expression of the loyalty of Old Prussians in various spheres of social communication: language, onomastic, objects of material culture. Definition of the ways to express loyalty that is the purpose of the article allows to characterize the comprehension ...

.... Baranov, ed. Vseobshchaya istoriya arkhitektury. Tom 12. Kniga pervaya. Ar ­ khi ­ tektura SSSR [General history of architecture. Volume 12. The first book. Architectu­re of the USSR]. Moscow, pp. 78—97 (in Russ.). Lotman, Yu. M., 1984. The symbolism of St. Petersburg and the problems of the semiotics of the city. In: Trudy po znakovym sistemam. Semiotika goroda i gorodskoi kul'tury. [Sign Systems Studies. Semiotics of the city and urban culture], 18. Tartu, pp. 30—45 (in Russ.). Lotman,...