The book is a collection of articles by the famous philosopher, culturologist, publicist, writer G. Pomeranz. This included works of the 80s and 90s with several returns to the past. The main sections of the book are "Experiments in Free Thought" ("Breakthrough through Ideology"; "Idiot Philosophy"; "Beyond Common Sense"; "Holistic Knowledge and Pluralism of Theories"; "Docta ignorantia"), "Literature and Art" (articles about Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Daniil Andreev, Sinyavsky, Samoilov, Chichibabin, Tarkovsky, etc.), "Faces of Culture" ("Passionate one-sidedness and impassive spirit"; "Milestones" in the context of modernity"; "European Freedom and the Russian Will"; "Destructive trends in Russian culture"; "Meta-artistic thinking in cultural studies").