Философия. Эстетика. Смех

The book "Philosophy. Aesthetics. Laughter" is a collection of philosophical and literary works of the 1990s by professor of the University of Tartu Leonid Stolovich.
Section 1. Philosophy contains an essay on the history of the loss, search and discovery by the Kant, which was kept until 1895 in Tartu ("Tartu Kantiana"), as well as the discovery of Kant's death mask. The full publication of the so-called. Kant's "Tartu manuscript" and its study. It also publishes articles on the typology of philosophical trends, the collapse of totalitarian thinking, the philosophical theory of value based on the concept of systemic pluralism. during which the problems of the aesthetic worldview of a person and the essence of art were discussed (“The beginning of a discussion about the aesthetic. Confession of a “public man”). An article is also published summarizing the author’s experience in modeling aesthetic value and art. At the conclusion of this part of the collection, the question is raised: “Will beauty save the world?".
Section 3. Laughter 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".