За пределами модерна? О некоторых проблемах постсекулярной интерпретации русской религиозной философии

Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2023. Т. 41. № 1. С. 194–217.

Pavlov I.

The article puts itself in the context of rethinking Russian religious philosophy as a post‑secular phenomenon. The author delineates the relationship between conceptualization of Russian religious philosophy as primarily shaped by secular modernity in historical scholarship and the newly emerging post‑secular interpretation. Although these approaches differ, the combination of both of them is possible through the transition from the historiosophical to a structural conceptualization of post‑secularity. The latter considers post‑secularity as a certain type of positioning religion within the condition of the secular modernity that is already there. Developing this approach to post‑secularity, the author connects it with the current attempts to overcome essentialist understanding of modernity by describing the latter as a variety of local historical situations, within which demodernization tendencies can be detected as well. Furthermore, such an interpretation of Russian religious philosophy as a post‑secular phenomenon avoids two main problems of applying the post‑secular theory to the contemporary Russian context, namely: a) disregarding the presence of the given secularity and modernity, and b) instrumentalizing the concept of the post‑secular by aggravating the conflict between the secular and the religious. To conclude, the author outlines possible further avenues for the post‑secular interpretation of Russian religious philosophy and highlights the significance of this strategy for the current debates.

Keywords: секуляризация, модерн, русская религиозная философия, secularization, Russian religious philosophy, Modernity, post-secular philosophy, постсекулярная философия

Publication based on the results of: Russia in the General World Order as a Problem of Intellectual Dialogue Between Russia and Europe (2023)