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Между философией и литературой: Понятие присутствие в текстах XVIII века
The article is dedicated to the analysis of the concept of presence in the philosophical and non-philosophical texts of the 18th century. This concept is the meeting ground of two semantic fields. On the one hand, the word присутствие ‘presence’ is derived from the Old Church Slavic present-tense participle сы, сѫшти “existing, being’, and signifies God’s presence in the Holy Gifts. On the other hand, присутствие, according to the Russian Academy Dictionary, refers to ‘being jointly at one place’ and ‘сourt sitting’. In addition, one finds a philosophical use of this term, where it is associated with the presence of an object in consciousness (for example, in Descartes, Hume, Locke) as well as with the presence (actual or imaginary) of a person (Adam Smith). Due both to Radischev’s philosophical interests and to biographical circumstances, his works provide abundant material for analyzing the topoi of presence and absence in their different meanings.