Константы: Словарь русской культуры

Condition: very good, the edge of the binding is worn

The book is a dictionary, but not of words, but of concepts - fundamental concepts of Russian culture, such as `World ` (around us), `Mental world` (in our minds) and their components - the concepts `Word`, `Faith`, `Love`, `Joy`, `Knowledge`, `Science`, `Number, Counting`, `Fear, Longing`, `Sin, Fornication`, `Friends - Strangers`, etc. These concepts, concepts are the values ​​of Russian culture and Russian culture in general, they belong to everyone and no one in particular. To use them, you need to know them, at least through a dictionary compiled by someone. Similarly, we try, for example, to learn English with the help of a dictionary, which is allowed to have an author. For the user this is rather an inconvenience, but there is no other way. But some concepts will perhaps reveal new sides - our everyday morality, presented through Chekhov's code, Kolchak - as a polar explorer on the scale of Nansen, Russian vodka, improved by Mendeleev - in its connection with the laws of the universe according to Newton, Burati-no - like the eternal boyish beginning of the world...

This linguocultural dictionary will be of interest to a person far from philology, no less than a linguist.