SPb. : Tartu, 1999. — 384 s. — ISBN 5-900453-44-8. Book of Philosophy . Aesthetics. Laughter" is a collection of philosophical and literary works of the 90s professor of the University of Tartu Leonid Stolovitch. The philosophy section contains an essay on the history of the loss, the search and discovery by the author of the part of the archive of the great Kant that was kept until 1895. in Tartu ("Tartu Kantiana"), as well as the discovery of Kant's posthumous mask . Complete publication of t. n. Kant's "Tartus Manuscript" and its Study. Here are published articles about the typology of philosophical trends, the collapse of totalitarian thinking, the philosophical theory of value based on the concept of systemic pluralism. In the section of aesthetics, it is told with the involvement of many new materials about the beginning of the largest discussion in the Soviet aesthetics of the postwar years - a discussion during which the problems of the aesthetic world-relation of man and the essence of art were discussed ("The beginning of the discussion about the aesthetic . Confessions of a "Society"]. An article summarizing the author's experience in modeling aesthetic value and art is also published. At the conclusion of this part of the collection, the question is posed: "Will beauty save the world?". The laughter section includes a number of articles and essays: “On the Metaphysics of Laughter”, “Laughter Against Totalitarian Philosophy”, “Pushkin’s Anecdotes”, as well as the comedy “Jewish Anecdotes . Scenes from Jewish Life" . Professor L. N. Stolovitch is the author of more than 40 books and more than 500 articles published in 20 languages. The book gives a problematic bibliography of his works for 45 years of scientific and pedagogical activity. He is a member of the Kant Society (Bonn), Kantian Society of Russia , International Association of Aesthetics , American Society of Aesthetics , Honorary Professor of the Institute of Social Sciences of Nanjing University (China), Full member of the Independent Academy of Aesthetics and Liberal Arts (Moscow) , Academician of the Academy of Humanities (C.) -Petersburg), a member of the Estonian and Russian Writers' Unions .