The book is devoted to the problems of history and cultural theory. The articles included in the collection were written at different times from 1966-2001. Previously published articles were revised for this publication, many articles were written specifically for this book. Culture is seen as a form of social consciousness, reflecting the nature and structure of a society consisting of individuals who self-reproduce themselves in the process of everyday practice, and supra-individual norms and ideas based on a generalization of this practice and regulating the behavior of individuals in the process of the same practice.