Mikhailov, A. Yu. À. Þ. «The Archeology of Culture»: Application of Foucault’s Methodology to Researching and Teaching Cultural History (the Case of the Russian Empire)

Abstract: The author of the article applies M. Foucault’s methodology to researching and teaching the Russian culture. The conception of the archeology of knowledge combined with other methodological concepts (by Thomas Kuhn, Erwin Panofsky, Naum Pevsner) allows to establish the research frame for analyzing the mechanisms of interaction and mutual infl uence of the historical epoch and concrete spheres of culture. In order to describe his original views on development of culture, the author makes his own categories of terms allowing to avoid a discriminated description of the culture-historical process (the spirit of the time, culturehistorical paradigm, leading cultural practice).

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