The book of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor V.V. Mironov includes selected articles and interviews of recent years, which touch upon the specifics of philosophical knowledge, understanding philosophy in general and metaphysics as its semantic core. A philosophical analysis of the processes taking place in modern culture and language related to the processes of globalization and digitalization is carried out. A number of articles are devoted to the history of Marxism in Russia, the problem of the relationship between philosophy and power (the case of M. Heidegger), the status of religion in modern society and its attitude to philosophy, reflections on the processes taking place in modern education and science.