V knige na osnove religiozno-filosofskikh i filosofsko-istoricheskikh vozzreniy starshikh slavyanofilov A.S. Khomyakova, I.V. Kireevskogo, brat'ev Aksakovykh, Yu.F. Samarina, ikh posledovateley (N.Ya. Danilevskiy i dr.) i protivnikov (russkaya filosofiya XIX-XX vekov est' filosofiya iskaniya absolyutnoy - zhivoy - istiny i v etom smysle slavyanofil'skaya), issledovaniy v oblasti filosofii kul'tury (O. Shpengler, A. Toynbi i dr.), natsional'nykh kosmopsikhologosov G.D. Gacheva, substratnoy refleksii A.A. Gagaeva rassmatrivaetsya fenomen russkogo vzglyada na mirozdanie kak vedushchey kategorii v teorii russkoy shkoly, analiziruetsya cherez prizmu ocherchennogo kul'turno-istoricheskogo fenomena (russkogo vzglyada na mirozdanie) soderzhanie otechestvennykh filosofsko-pedagogicheskikh ucheniy XVIII-XX vekov.