Humanitarian knowledge: thesaurus approach

The article is a basic introduction to theoretical aspects of the «thesaurus approach» and some of the results of its application to different fields of humanitarian knowledge. The «thesaurus approach» is quite a new comprehensive tool for the theory and the history of philosophical, cultural, literary, linguistic and sociological studies. It might be helpful instrument in making of generalisations that underline the understanding of subjective perception of wide World that surrounds us. The article also gives a new definition of the term «thesaurus» as a basic construction that allows to become conversant with everyday reality. Therefore, it acts as some kind of basis for subjective cultural background of personal corpus of knowledge that reflects division into «its own» and «alien» in culture, education, science, etc.