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This review is aimed at determining the meaning and significance of the collective monograph «Creativity and Subjectivity» in the context of contemporary discourse in humanities. The authors of the monograph are a group of researchers united in the Research and Education Center «Philosophy of Modernity and the Strategy of Expertise in Humanities» at the A. I. Herzen RSPU; their goal is to determine the conditions for the possibility of a subject in the modern socio-cultural and epistemological field. The book is devoted to the issues affecting the topical forms of philosophical reflection, existential being in the world, ethics and aesthetics of life, philosophy of event, which lead to the understanding of the foundations of socialization and education. The strudy is an interdisciplinary project: with its own language, built on the boundary of disciplines and aimed at revealing the constitutive mechanisms of the formation of the life world. The method of revealing the significance of the questions posed in the book is to transfer them to the problem field of our time. The congruence of author's efforts to the problem field of modernity, the accuracy of concepts, the scale of the resolving power of hypotheses, the fineness of methods are determined.