The first complete Russian edition of the book of one of the pillars of American pragmatism, the ideas of which formed the basis of symbolic interactionism. The book raises the most important issues of social and historical knowledge, the philosophy of science, issues of the unity of natural-scientific and social knowledge (on the example of theories of relativity, electromagnetic radiation, the structure of the atom and the theory of social behavior and sociality). In the perspective of the newest ideas about space and time for that time, the author gives his understanding of the past, present and future, inscribed in his pragmatic concept of experience and theory of action. The book is of interest to specialists in the philosophy of science, cognition, sociological theory and social psychology.