Genealogy of

culture and faith:

perceived and secret

(beginning, babelfish bad translation)

Moscow, 2000

What is this book about? on the history of man and those socio-cultural forms, in which it itself turns/makes havoc or tightens. The essence of proceeding with the man is examined together with the changing values, the relations with the past and by today's, dead person and living, by peace/world and by god. The content is erected so as to explain basic tendencies and motives of cultural history, and it itself as the method of knowledge, it becomes the object/subject of analysis. Account rests chiefly on the domestic material, in which much place occupy facts and reflections, which concern Russian mentality, orthodoxy, statehood and mythology and culture. In its topics and approaches the book is close to philosophical anthropology, history, so-called humanistic psychology.

It is addressed to the amateurs of serious reading and it is written by accessible language (in Russian).

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Preface to the second edition

This is not theory, not journalism, not philosophical system, not entirely history (although the title hints at it). However, there is in all gradually. But sometimes, it would seem, the confidently running lines are encountered the doubt, are interrupted by the aching sigh and even cry souls? So about which the book? Here, briefly, some of its themes:

 

• understanding levels? from the mental forms to relativity (1,5,11) ;

   

• ethos of things and phenomena as the basis of pre-understanding (5);

   

• the opposition of place and space (local and global) (4,5,7,8,9,11-15);

   

• other world and daily in sakrofore (carrier of that revered) (1,8);

   

• are beyond in the life and death, skill, to science, histories and religions (1-15);

   

• simplification in the ideas about the man and of person himself as steady tendency (from the macro-man to the micro-man) (5,6,12);

   

• the socio-psychological types of old resident and nomad in contemporary culture (6,12,14);

   

• the reincarnation of material and insubstantial (2,3,6,8,15);

   

• the types of relations to the present and the past (2,3,4,14,15);

   

• raskoldovyvaniye of historical discourse (3,14);

   

• the latent and explicit mythological and cultural installations, which manage people (1-15);

   

• contemporary culture in its connections/communications with antiquity (1-15);

   

• the fatal epidemic of use and the cult of benefit (1,5,10,12,14);

   

• living as reciprocity (12);

   

• the mysticism of interrelations with that surrounding (1,5);

   

• nest and ancestral life? the sources of entire cultural and social development (5-12);

   

• knowledge about the past and intercourse with the past: history and religion (3,4,14,15);

   

• on pro-logos of constancy and change (2,10,11);

   

• the historical cultural mechanisms of sacralisation  and desacralisation(7,10,11,13,14);

   

• the mythology also of numerology of time (2,3,4,7,15);

   

• calendars, hours and cycles in the fight with time (15);

   

• the imaginary victories over the time and the expectation of end (15);

   

• the logic of offerings (6,7,11,13,15);

   

• short range (natural) and long-range, overcoming oppositions (spiritual) connections (2,3);

   

• the role of close-range interaction in understanding of causality and history (3);

   

• spiritual and natural connections in orthodoxy (3,10,14);

   

• strangeness and out of time of prophecies (4);

   

• faith and rite - way into another world (10,11);

   

• artificial and natural - the leading opposition in Russian mentality (West Russia) (6,9,10,11,12,13,14);

   

• the mythology of state (9,12,13,14);

   

• the ancestral roots of Russian revolutions (9,11);

   

• paradisiacal generation and the subsequent regeneration of authority (13);

   

• authority is church and is state (13);

   

• the change of cultures - the vector of Russian history (2,6,11,14);

   

• the relicts of mythological culture  in Soviet epoch (1-15);

   

• the historical, mythological and cultural special features of Russian orthodoxy (1-15).

In spite of the variety of topics, the reader, we hope, will perceive the entirety of the book, if it tries to glance at the discussed in it problems and the facts by the eyes of its authors. Especially as all topics (some are closer, other further) crowd around essences and bewilderment of Russian life, which is concluded in the certain dominant, which digests on its manner any influences, sometimes with the effect, reverse planned.

Moscow, November 2000.