In the present article the question of an adequate context of the research in the field of philosophical meaning of the text is raised. The search for such context is based on two essential factors: expanding the scope of interdisciplinary research and the predominance of philologism in research of textual culture. Significant interest that is shown towards the text in modern historical and philosophical studies is noted in this article. The studies show differences between supporters of historical and of textological approaches, which could potentially allow to reduce meaning of philosophical text to a web of historical circumstances or personal characteristics of the author. The article appeals to philosophical textology, which researches philosophical text in the context of textual culture taking into account the purpose and communicative situation of the public by nature philosophical text. Textual culture as a web of methods of creating, storing and translation of texts allows to highlight textual format as a result of junction of all relevant circumstances that allowed the text to appear at the time and take its place in the space of modern communication. The term "textual culture" allows to avoid all sorts of reductionism in the historical and philosophical studies, develop a strategy of its comprehension relevant to specifics of the philosophical text.
