THE QUESTION IS THE METAPHOR OF SOCIAL SPACE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF METAPHYSICAL THINKING
The complex parameters of modern society require new concepts, metaphors for the description of the social space, a kind of new option for the general model. The author relies on the methodology of the research of mental processes proposed by the famous European philosophical schools, analyzes the morphological foundations of the style of thinking, by which the image of the sphere has metaphorical characteristics. Shows the intellectual changes in the research of society, which is evidence of transformation, on the one hand, the mental process, and on the other hand, is the consequence of a departure from the metaphysical style of thinking. Emphasizes the new metaphor of perceiving social space as a new option for his understanding.