Abstract

This paper focuses on the specifics of epistemological style of Russian philosophers and scholars in the humanities of 19-20th centuries. The appeal to individual methodological “handwriting” in the context of contemporary philosophical problems can retrace the historical traditions of Russian intellectual culture as an integral phenomenon. Referring in due time to the problems of “integral knowledge”, Russian philosophers formulated a number of ideas that enriched European traditions of social-humane research and influenced the development of semiotics and structuralism, both in Europe and in Russia. The ideas of Russian philosophers, in our opinion, are still the productive context, but now for the development of the modern humane methodology in general. The investigation of methodological issues in Russian philosophy makes possible, on the one hand, the understanding of its substantial specifics and on the other – the observation of modern epistemology of the humanities in the viewpoint, opening up new perspectives, unexplored in the philosophical-methodological literature.