From the author's foreword. The works collected here were put together at different times (the earliest is from 1976. In different ways and in different ways[edit] Nevertheless, it seemed to me possible to make a thematically coherent book out of them? There is a certain leading theme, the presence of which allows us to recognize the composition of the whole book in a collection of heterogeneous essays. The first section of the collection consists of works that deal with some episodes from the history of European culture (Homeric epic, Greek tragedy, gospel "word") and science (Copernican revolution). These episodes, however, are not accidental. All of them, in one way or another, belong to epochal frontiers, frontiers not in a chronological, but in a cultural sense. Are those works in which the historical era acquires a whole and universal? e. cultural? self-awareness?The second section of the book includes three articles, Two of them , In other words, , disputes between "faith" and "reason" as they are reflected in Russian philosophy namely in the dispute between religious metaphysics and Kant's transcendentalism, On the other hand, , and in the dispute Shestov with the whole rationalist tradition , with another. Theme tag:Philosophy