The article highlights the role of encyclopedias – «Culturology. ХХ-th century» (1998) and «Culturology. Encyclopedia» (2007) – in the formation of culturology as the science of the 21st century.
Keywords
encyclopedia; culturology; culture; dialogue of cultures; philosophy of culture; sociology of culture; cultural history; cultural anthropology; philosophical anthropology; history of ideas; succession; the world of man; theoretical problems of culturology.