Zhukova O.A. Philosophy of Russian culture. Metaphysical perspective of man and history.  - M.: LLC ""Izdatelstvo "Soglasie"", 2017. - 624 p.

 

The monograph by O. A. Zhukova, a Russian philosopher and cultural scientist, Professor of The national research University "Higher school of Economics" examines the cultural and philosophical subjects that have become traditional for Russian thinkers of the XIX–XX centuries and have not lost their importance for modern philosophers of culture and history, philosophical anthropologists, historians of Russian thought. The research focuses on the problem of semantic interdependence of religious, artistic and socio-political tradition in Russian history, which is thematized by the concept of man, culture and creativity. In the history of Russia the problem of continuity of spiritual and social experience, inheritance and translation of the values and meanings developed by the previous experience of culture reveals itself. This logic of transformation, which destroys the ideal value sphere of culture, is manifested in Russian intellectual and social history as a contradiction between the freedom of the person and the traditionalism of power, which is inalienable in the Christian tradition, marking the opposition of liberalism and conservatism in Russian public thought. The author outlines the outline of Russian cultural history, continuing the discussion about civilizational, cultural and political identity of Russia. The monograph problematizes the theme of the philosophy of creativity, interpreted in Russian culture as a way of salvation and moral service, analyzes the artistic and religious traditions of Russian culture, reconstructs the image of Russia and Europe, represented in the national consciousness.

The publication is addressed to researchers, students and graduate students specializing in the history of Russian thought, philosophy of culture, philosophical anthropology, aesthetics, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the problems of philosophy of Russian culture, history and art.

Content
Introduction. Philosophical discourse on Russian culture
Section I. the PERSON of the RUSSIAN CULTURE. THE EXPERIENCE OF PHILOSOPHICAL AND CULTURAL RECONSTRUCTION
Part 1. Christian universalism of Russian culture and art: typology of culture as a typology of personality
Chapter 1. Ancient Russia: the culture of Word and Image
Chapter 2. Ontological aesthetics and artistic practice of ancient Russian culture
Chapter 3. Moral order of human existence: Christian ethos of Russian literature
Chapter 4. Aesthetic ideals of Russian culture in the creative experience of composers
Chapter 5. Man, nature and culture: philosophy of landscape image in Russian art
Part 2. Metamorphosis cultural tradition: from postclassic to postclassic
Chapter 1. At the break of tradition: problems of typology of artistic self-consciousness
Chapter 2. Art myth and social utopia of Russian vanguard
Chapter 3. Discovery of modernity: artistic philosophy of non-classical culture
Chapter 4. Being in culture: art as a way of life
Chapter 5. Night intuitions of Russian literature and art: historical dynamics of culture
Section II. RUSSIAN CULTURE: PHILOSOPHICAL OPTICS HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Part 1. Russia in the European perspective: the value foundations of culture and politics
Chapter 1. Cultural code of Russia: experience of philosophy of History N. M. Karamzina
Chapter 2. Philosophy of Russian Europeanism: national culture and values of modernity in creative experience N.V. Stankevich’s
Chapter 3. Christian foundations of social life: I. S. Aksakov's cultural and political ideal
Chapter 4. NewSlavophilism and NewWesternism: the dispute about German and Russian culture
Chapter 5. Discourse on Russian power: the moral dimension of political power
Chapter 6. Russia and freedom: philosophy of culture and history G.P. Fedotov
Chapter 7. Russian culture in the European context: the philosophy of cultural universalism V.V. Weidle
Part 2. Metaphysics and Analytics of Russian culture and history
Chapter 1. The concept of culture and creativity in Russian religious and philosophical thought
Chapter 2. Freedom and immortality: Christian logic of the historical process of S.N. Trubetskoy
Chapter 3. Russian culture and intellectual tradition of Europe: philosophy of logism V.F. Erna
Chapter 4. Sense and nonsense of the era: metaphysics of revolution E.N. Trubetskoy
Chapter 5. The spiritual meaning of creation: the eschatological metaphysics N.A. Berdyaev
Chapter 6. The idea of Russia: metaphysical cultural sociology of F.A. Stepun
Instead of conclusion. Modus Russia. Russian culture in time and eternity
Name index
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