| Title of the article: |
Review Kutyrev V. A. Last kissing. Man as the tradition. — SPb .: Aletheia, 2015. — 312 p. — («Body of Thought» series) |
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Timoshchuk A. S. |
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Reviews |
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2016 |
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№ 3 (41) |
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194-198 |
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A new book by V. A. Kutyrev is always a significant news in Russian intellectual life. His works are distinguished by a good combinaton of humanism and erudition, lengthy professional criticism, colorful art style, all that is needed to make every new book an event. “Last kissing. Man, as the tradition” is specially due to its cross-cultural topics. Customarily Vladimir warns the reader against degradation in a new, criticizing postmodernism / transmodernism and reveals the meaning of history as a human tradition. The end of history was seen already in the works by Parmenides and Kant, who ushered knowledge based on understanding of reality. Apart from the tragic dialectic of history, it is proved quite a sensible idea — not everything that is technically possible, should be put into practice. Ethical control must be implemented by philosophers, as for atomic bombs and Hadron Collider — they should be displayed as museum exhibits. Kutyrev’s philosophy of conservative romantic resistance is simple and elegant — it puts the life above the quest of meaning. The proclamation of deep ecology as care about the things around us is done in the best traditions of Russian literature and Orthodox Sofia. |
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