Historical turns of culture. Collection of scientific articles (to the 70th anniversary of Professor I.V. Kondakov). General editorial and drafting of O. N. Astafieva. – М.: Soglasie PH, 2018. – 530 pp.

 

The collection of scientific articles dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the birth of the famous scientist-philosopher and Culturologist, the historian of culture, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor Igor Vadimovich Kondakov-includes articles and materials of participants of all-Russian Conference "Historical Turns of culture", held within the framework of the Scientific and methodological seminar "Culture and Cultural Policy" (IPACS RANEPA) together with the scientific and Educational Culturological Society (December 2017). Among the authors of the articles are scientists and researchers, professors of universities of Russia and foreign countries.

The book discloses the diversity of approaches and assessments to the understanding of the dynamics of civilization and socio-political changes, in varying measure affecting the ideological and style palette of contemporary culture; The uniqueness of artistic creativity of different periods of the history of Russian culture is shown; The main tendencies of cultural development in the process of transition to the information age are identified. The author's collective has reflected methodological searches of scientific community in the field of cultural studies, philosophy, art, in general-modern social and humanitarian knowledge and-a circle of scientific interests of jubilee.

The publication is addressed both to specialists and to a wide range of readers who are interested in turning points of the history of Russian culture, theoretical problems of cultural studies and philosophy of culture.

The book is also recommended as a teaching aid to teachers and students in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies for use in the courses of cultural science, anthropology, sociology, theory and history of culture, art criticism, ethnology, Public administration and management in the cultural sphere.