1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

New year greetings from the Journal’s editorial director A.Y. Flier, “Soglasie” publishing house’s founder V.V. Mikhalsky and director general T.V. Glazkova

Hypotheses:

THE NORMATIVE THEORY OF CULTURE

A.Y. Flier. Culture as a Social Regulatory Program: The Stage of Formation

A.Y. Flier. Culture as a Symbolic Activity: The Stage of Formation

Discussions:

CONTEMPORARY CULTURE: ITS FEATURES AND TRENDS

Comment to the discussion

N.A. Khrenov. Any Positive Development Has a Downside

M.I. Kozyakova. Tradition in Time of Change

O.A. Zhukova. Philosophy and Theory of Culture in Analysis of Today

WHERE ARE THE LIMITS OF CULTURAL STUDIES? A RETURN TO OLD DISPUTES (Invitation to Discussion)

A.Y. Flier. Insurmountable Barriers of Systematization: Fields of Science and Roadsides of Journalism

 

Analytics:

HIGH ART IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE (E.N. Shapinskaya’s Section)

E.N. Shapinskaya. Schubert’s “Die Winterreise” in Contemporary Culture: the Eternal Questions of Being and Longing for Lost Values

Summing up the Year of Culture. Interview with V. Pyavko, B. Statsenko, V. Koval

Theater education: Aesthetic Development and Personality Formation in Actor Training. Interview with A.S. Kuzin

MYTHOLOGICAL FORMS OF CULTURE

A.A. Pelipenko. Culture as a Field Formation

V.M. Rozin. Conceptualization of Afterlife in Ancient Culture

N.A. Khrenov. Myth and Culture in the XX Century: Filmmaking of Myths (Part 1)

Information

New books:

A.V. Kostina. Selected Works on Theory of Culture