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

 

Skeletons in the Closet and their Vital Perspectives

Abstract: The article presents the author’s views on the social function of culture and specific features of the current cultural situation, on the prospects of social evolution and cultural traits, in which it will be expressed. The author holds to the concept of the end of the "era of culture" in its usual sense, and the beginning of a systemic transformation of culture which is gaining a new quality.

Keywords: Culture and its current state, its difference from the culture of the mid-twentieth century, "cultural crisis", prospects of cultural development.

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