The new book of the political philosopher Artemy Magun, associate professor of the Faculty of Free Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University, associate professor of the European University in St. Petersburg, is both a textbook on the political philosophy of the New Age and a treatise on the essence of the political. The book deals with the most influential systems of political thought; in fact, the reader is introduced into the richest tradition of discussions about the unification and separation of people, which until now, for obvious reasons, remains little mastered in Russian culture and politics.