Flier Andrey Yakovlevich,
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor,
Chief Researcher
Lykhachev Russian Research Institute
for Cultural and Natural Heritage
e-mail: andrey.flier@yandex.ru

Culture of Chaos

Abstract. The article deals with the question of social order to be provided by culture, particularly, culture of modernism, which provides “another order”, based on the principles of self-containment and independence, in contrast to traditional culture, being ordered and therefore context dependent.

Key words. Culture, social order, traditional culture, culture of modernism, context dependence/independence.

The article is prepared with the support of the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Fund, grant № 15-03-00031 Cultural Regulation of Social Dynamics.
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