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"This book is a critical inquiry into the meaning and function of sovereignty in the present and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the modus operandi of the international system as a whole. Although we have grown accustomed to regard sovereignty both as a defining characteristic of the modern state and a constitutive principle of the international system, this book argues that recent changes indicate that sovereignty has been turned into a grant contingent upon its responsible exercise in accordance with the norms and values of an imagined international community. This book has grown out the dissatisfaction with the author's previous work on sovereignty and the state, and argues that a new concept of sovereignty is needed today in order to clarify the logic of its current usage in theory and practice alike and its connection to broader concerns of social ontology: what kind of world do we inhabit, and of what kind of entities is this world composed? This book will be of interest to students of International Relations, Critical Security and International Politics"--

The purpose of the work is to determine the specifics of ornament functioning as a symbolic form of culture, its meaning and role in marking the socio-cultural environment. The methodological research consists in the application of analytical, structural, cultural-hermeneutical, axiological, and semiotical methods, which allow us to consider the phenomenon of ornament from different aspects of cultural knowledge. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the discovery of the specifics of human signs and symbolic activities based on the example of ornamental decoration and signification. The ornamental functions, its sign-symbolic and socio-psychological components in the cultural-historical environment are researched. We have proven that the carrier of cultural and historical information is ornament and it is the means of communication between generations in space and time. Conclusions. Self-management of a human in the field of culture is implemented by means of symbols and signs, which are organised in such symbolic forms as language, religion, science, and art. Ornament is an artistic means of shape creation of art. Ornament is a dynamic figurative form that demonstrates the temporal cycles of senses in different artistic genres showing the static of image, the topos. Due to dynamic and temporal component codifies the cultural memory of the community, the ornamental chronotope is a storage of national cultural narratives that are re-actualised during the socio-cultural crises, and during request for deep markers of collective knowledge.
Key words: ornament, sign, symbolic form, culture.

Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in Twentieth-century philosophy, and The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is his most important work. This major new translation of all three volumes, the first for over fifty years, brings Cassirer's magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars.

Abstract
The publication of Wolfgang Wildgen's Morphogenesis of Symbolic Forms: Meaning in Music, Art, Religion and Language is an opportune moment to reflect on the author's extensive contributions to a dynamic semiotics, founded on catastrophe theory. Bringing together a number of investigations on a number of Cassirer-like "symbolic forms" like music, visual art, myth/religion and language, Wildgen provides an overarching system to weigh the semiotic resources of each of these bodies of knowledge as they contribute to the semiogenesis of the species. By comparing sensorial capacities, Wildgen helps us understand how and when a symbolic form can grow at all. Chapters devoted to each form explore their unique way of organizing knowledge. Using catastrophe primitives, Wildgen both bonds symbolic forms together while at the same time preserving Cassirer's Enlightenment interest in evolution and the way in which new semiotic capacities grow and others can be discarded. The review ends with a consideration of the humanist's misunderstanding of mathematical and natural science insights like Wildgen's and explains how its rich results are to be utilized.