E.N. Shapinskaya. Selected works on Philosophy of Culture. Philosophy of Culture in the New Key. Moscow: Soglasie, 2014

 

The book consists of two parts reflecting many years of author's work on different aspects of philosophy of culture. The first part - "Music as the problem field of human existence"  -  addresses interpretations of concept sphere of philosophy in the language of music. The author examines such problems as power and its forms, freedom and responsibility, different ways of choosing one's way in life, crisis of identity in liminal periods on the examples of Russian and European opera classics. Another group of problems deals with the fate of classical heritage in postmodern culture with its accent on exhaustion of culture and boundless semantic pluralism. The second part - "The Other with a thousand faces" - contains the reflection on different types of The Other (ethnocultural, existential, subcultural, gender based) in different cultural representations forming the ideas about the Other and the attitude towards him in culture and society.