The book includes works on the philosophy of historical experience and the humanities - the hermeneutic-dialogical tradition in the history of Western European and Russian thought. Experience and language of thinking D. Vico, M. Heidegger, G.-G. Gadamer, E. Auerbach, M. Bakhtin, G. Shpet, S. Averintsev and others are considered in the perspective of the postulated field of research - "humanitarian epistemology."