Humanitarian knowledge on the threshold of the third millennium: the frontier of a new spirituality. Information society and violence. Russian philosophical reflections: time of results. On the subject of cultural studies. Metamorphosis of esotericism. The problem of fear: the art of life in the "Age of Death." Homo faber: classic concept crash? Civilized power: political and moral grounds. Russia: genesis and organon of self-awareness. Axial connection between Russia and Western Europe: the global importance of the Eurasian equilibrium. Perspective of tolerance.