The research program has identified and defined key issues of contemporary philosophy developed in its dialogue with new forms of knowledge and technique as well as with different cultural, political and communicational practices of the contemporary globalized world. The research work has contributed its share to the necessary renewal of philosophical reflection and is comparable in this regard to related international philosophical endeavours. It has also helped to boost the conceptual creativity of philosophy, which is nowadays the condition of possibility for philosophy abroad as well as in Slovenia in order for it to play its part in mental experiences originating in fields of knowledge, culture and politics and to respond to mutations of old knowledge, arts and techniques. The research program has developed these potentials and orientations of thought and philosophy which enable philosophy to reply even more promptly to the increasing challenges of contemporary processes of supranational economic, cultural, scientific and political integrations. The epistemological importance of the research work lies primarily in orienting philosophical thought into a more thorough reflection of some key problems of hitherto unknown or marginalized domains of human existence, such as, for instance, the new technological conditions of the relationship to body, disease and genetic heritage, the ambivalent status of culture and cultural goods as merchandise, the question of sexual difference, research into the theory of speech, language, writing, grammar and discourse, to the transformation of forms, the foundations and classification of art, to the transfer of the sovereignty,supranational economic-political integrations, etc.