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

The Theory of Culture as the Subject of Discussion
(in memory of А.А. Pelipenko)

Abstract. The article is dedicated to A. Pelipenko’s views on culture, as well as to analytical comments on some of them. The author touches upon his discussions with the researcher on the theory of culture, its origin, its relationship with social behavior of animal, its historical and social future, etc.

Keywords. Culture, theories of culture, evolution, sense-genesis, logocentric type of consciousness.

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