Editor-in-Chief's column
Reference:
Gurevich, P. S.
Is Culture Threatened to Die?
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 5-9.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57169
Abstract:
The article contains a critical analysis of the works by modern philosophers who speak of the death of culture in the modern world. According to the author, being an anthropological attribute of human, culture does not ‘die’ but only change drastically.
Keywords:
philosophy, culture, human, life, values
IN MEMORIAM
Reference:
Horuzhiy, S. S.
Revaluation of All Anthropological Values
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 10-18.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57170
Abstract:
The report proves the idea that Nietzsche’s conception appeared after Kierkegaard’s but not vice versa. In his article the author made an attempt to reconstruct Nietzsche’s anthropological conception. He noted that dramatic and overall criticism of the essentialists’ model of human eventually made Nietzsche to deconstruct the essentialistic subject created by Aristotle, Boetius and Descartes. Such a ‘death of the subject’ became the key topic of Nietzsche’s later works.
Keywords:
philosophy, philosophical anthropology, anthropological values, existentialism, human, subject, ontology, discourse
IN MEMORIAM
Reference:
Kutyrev, V. A.
Reconstruction of Human
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 19-26.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57171
Abstract:
We live in the epoch of human engineering turning into an ‘engineering’ human. Undoubtedly, such Human has a certain future which may last for several centuries. ‘Traditional’ or ‘historical’ human has all his future in the past. He has only eternity. Conservative revolution under the banner of Archaeo Avantgarde is the main business of the day at the 21st century. All the rest is the ‘business of the night’. Thus shall we live further.
Keywords:
philosophy, human, personality, God, nature, subject, future, individual, engineering, metaphysics
IN MEMORIAM
Reference:
Gorelov, A. A.
Global Crisis and Development of Spirituality
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 27-36.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57172
Abstract:
In his article the author establishes the opinion that the global financial and economic crisis is caused by the consumer society and Consuming Human. In order to overcome the crisis, it is necessary to review the values and to refuse from the consumer’s values for the sake of spiritual values (production, labor and creativity). The author sees human perspectives in establishment of Spiritual Human, spiritual and social structure and pheumatosphere (according to Pavel Florensky).
Keywords:
philosophy, crisis, Consuming Human, mind, Spiritual Human, spiritual and social structure, noosphere, pheumatosphere
Philosophy and art
Reference:
Korolev, S. A.
From ‘Apostle’ to ‘Archipelago’: Social and Cultural Transformations in Russia
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 37-51.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57173
Abstract:
The article considers the three stages of social and cultural transformation of Russia: slow accumulation of cultural and educational potentials starting from book printing and lasting up to the beginning of the 20th century; Stalin’s ‘cultural revolution’ when the cultural space was reconstructed and became the field of agenda, indoctrination and Stalin’s ideology; and the hidden ‘Westernization’ when the elements of consumer society ripened during the so called ‘period of stagnation’. The end of the latter led the Russian society to the period of regeneration of social and cultural tissue which had been lost before (the so called ‘perestroika’) and to the Internet revolution at the beginning of the 21st century.
Keywords:
modernization, social and cultural transformation, Westernization, culture, formation, ‘cultural revolution’, ‘period of stagnation’
Philosophical anthropology
Reference:
Voronin, A. A.
On the Question of Mechanisms of Social Self-Consciousness
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 52-60.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57174
Abstract:
In this article the author raised the question of succession of culture. As an object of his analysis the author defined the subjectless forms of translation of culture. The author also introduced the term ‘cultural filter’ and marked the approaches to studying the mechanisms of self-regulation of culture.
Keywords:
philosophy, culture, self-consciousness, subject, subjectlessness, novation, succession, filter, mechanism of succession, morphology
Man and mankind
Reference:
Balagushkin, E. G.
Morphology of Mysticism. Article 2
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 61-66.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57175
Abstract:
The thesis of ‘uniform’ mysticism ignores the forms typical for paganism and developed religions. Even though mysticism still has the same nature and origin, it definitely varies greatly in forms and structures. The author defined the five ‘primary’ structures of mysticism (archetypes): unity with God, Godsend, transcendental and immanent mystical determinations and the bipolar immanent and transcendental mystical bond. According to the author, primary configurations of the mystical bond usually join in structural complexes.
Keywords:
philosophy, mysticism, complex, morphology, sacred, structure, archetype, transcendental, immanent
Cycles and tides in the global world
Reference:
Rodzinksy, D. L.
Fortune and its Role in Antique Philosophers’ Perception of the World
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 67-71.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57176
Abstract:
The author of the article studies the role of Fortune which influences our personal perception of the world and makes us strive for perfection. In an ontological aspect, it is one of the images of the antique idea of fate. In an anthropological aspect, it defines the role and the place of human in his society. In a gnoseological aspect, it stimulates our learning. In an ethical sphere it forms the great virtues of the mind. The image of Fortune is some kind of connection between the elements of Cosmos, from one hand, and a wise man’s behavior, from the other hand.
Keywords:
philosophy, fortune, fate, accident, luck, wise man, virtues, mind, happiness, blessing, spirit
National character and mentality
Reference:
Sontag, S.
Artiest as an Example of Martyr
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 72-77.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57177
Abstract:
Susan Sontag is an American author, literary theorist and political activist. In her article Sontag reviews the famous diary by Cesare Paverse which was published after his suicide and became a rather important event in literature. Susan Sontag studies Cesare Paverse’s views on personality, life and love.
Keywords:
philosophy, art, artist, Cesare Paverse, love
Self-consciousness and identity
Reference:
Granin, P. S.
Symbolism of A. S. Hohlov’s ‘Semiramida’
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 78-88.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57178
Abstract:
The author of the article evidently proved that will is a transcendental function between visible and invisible realities. According to the author, manifestation of ‘visible reality’ is kushism and ‘invisible’ reality displays itself in iranism. Kushism sumbolizes the principle of necessity or ‘necessity’ of birth and existence. On the contrary, iranism is a symbol of freedom and creation.
Keywords:
philosophy, Iranism, Kushism, archetype, unconsciousness, myth, symbol, metaphysics, hierophania, numinous
Myths and modern mythologies
Reference:
Gurevich, P. S.
‘And Death with its Forgetful Hand…’ (About Anatoly Ivanovich Utkin)
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 89-89.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57179
Abstract:
This is ‘in memoriam’ of Anatoly Utkin, head of the Center of International Researches of the Institute of the USA and Canada, famous historian and expert in international relations.
Keywords:
philosophy, culture, history, international relations, Anatoly Utkin
Spiritual and moral search
Reference:
Ryklin, M. K.
Last Follower of Rousseau. Nature and Culture in Claude Levi-Strauss’ symphony of myths. Part 2
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 90-100.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57180
Abstract:
The article is dedicated to the memory of the French ethnologist and anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss who died on October 30, 2009 in Paris. The author analyzed the main ideas of Levi-Strauss’ conception of myths as a type of speech described in his work ‘Mythologiques I-IV’. The author also studied the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Claude Levi-Strauss’ views. It is underlined that the French philosopher made a great contribution to development of anthropology and philosophy.
Keywords:
philosophy, myth, Rousseau, Claude Levi-Strauss
History of ideas and teachings
Reference:
Claude Levi-Strauss
Final. Part 2
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 101-116.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57181
Abstract:
This is an extract from the book by the French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Levi-Strauss in which he had summed up his 20-years of experience in studying myths. The author analyzed the classical theories of myths in psychology (such as Freud’s and Jean Piaget’s theories). It is underlined that the study of myths inevitably raises more profound and difficult questions related to understanding human culture and being.
Keywords:
philosophy, psychology, myth, understanding, culture, human