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Культура интерпретации до начала Нового времени
The studies included in this collective monograph reflect the major problems of reception of authoritative texts, doctrines, and concepts throughout the history of European thought from the Patristic era to the beginning of the 17th century. The authors of the monograph perform an analysis of methods and genres of interpretation performed using little-known sources of philosophical and theological thought from the Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This includes the phenomenon of apocryphal literature in the first centuries of the Christian Era, patristic writings of the Christian Fathers, of educational and doctrinal literature of the Middle Ages, the writings of late medieval Mystics, Byzantinian theological works, journalism works of Greek-speaking authors through the era of Turkish domination, and the works of G erman humanist and Protestant writers during the Reformation.
For teachers and students of philosophy, philology, history departments, as well as for anyone interested in history of philosophical and theological thought, hermeneutics and philological culture.
The author discusses an idea of composing a list of «100 books of Higher School of Economics» as a university canon for a reader and analyzes a long-term publishing project of the Russian Christian Humanitarian Institute called «The Russian way».
This book is based on materials from the conference 'The USSR: Life after Death', and the round table 'The Second Crash, from the Collapse of the Soviet Union to the Crisis of Neo-liberalism', held in December 2011 and January 2012, respectively. The two events brought together different generations of experts and researchers. For some, Soviet life was part of their personal experience, while for others it was just part of their country’s history. To what extent and in what form have Soviet socio-cultural practices and everyday life patterns survived in the capitalist post-Soviet society? Is the 'Soviet legacy' an obstacle to the development of a new bourgeois society in Russia or, conversely, does it serve to stabilize the new system? Does a 'Soviet mentality' create resistance or help adapt to the neoliberal reality? The answers to these questions, which seemed quite obvious to the mass consciousness back in the 1990s, need to be reconsidered today.
The article is concerned with the notions of technology in essays of Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger. The special problem of the connection between technology and freedom is discussed in the broader context of the criticism of culture and technocracy discussion in the German intellectual history of the first half of the 20th century.