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ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE PLAY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2012. Issue 4 (119). P. 208-213

The article is devoted to study of the defi nition of play as a phenomenon of human activity. Different theoretical approaches to play research are considered: metaphoric, social and psychological, aesthetic and culturological, linguistic, philosophical and anthropological. The authors prove the leading role of philosophical and anthropological discourse in the interpretation of the playing practices of contemporary culture.

Keywords: anthropology, play theory, human activity

THE STOIC PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN LOT: PANTHEISM AND SUICIDE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2013. Issue 5 (133). P. 9-16

The article analyses the relation between metaphysics and ethics in the stoic philosophy. The author shows the dependence of the theory of suicide on fundamental ideas about the nature of the cosmos. The thesis of subordination of individual existence to principles of the global process leads eventually to the adoption of self-destructive programme in the individual life. The ethics of stoicism is not able to really oppose the person to circumstances. Therefore it inevitably reduces the individual activity to meet the requirements of the “state of affairs” – until the termination of their own lives in those cases, when it is the “state of affairs” will be read by sage as the terminal prescription of natural logos.

Keywords: philosophical anthropology, stoicism, wisdom, nature, ethics, suicide

VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY: THE IMAGE, THE SUBJECT AND COMMUNICATION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2013. Issue 9 (137). P. 229-235

The article investigates the communicative function of the image. The author makes distinction between the concepts of «image», «exterior» and «picture», analyzes the main characteristics of the image as a cultural mediator.

Keywords: visual anthropology, communication, culture, image, fragment, the subject

RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE: VISUAL AND SEMIOTIC ASPECTS // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 7 (148). P. 59-64

The author investigates a semiotic function of religious architecture. Sacred building (a temple) is a specific visual semiotic unit, fixing main religious and cultural content. The concept of “sacred place”, shifting from temple to the city, translates local historical meanings and related visual markers on a habitable environment in general. Methods of architectural design of sacral topos in the national culture are investigated on the example of the most important sacred buildings. Three semiotic paradigms of sacred meanings transfer in architecture are identified: the transfer of ideas, the image transfer and the copying.

Keywords: architecture, religion, culture, semiotic transfer