THE PHENOMENON OF THE WISDOM OF HINDSIGHT IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIAN CONSERVATIVE AND PROGRESSIVE TYPES OF THINKING (ALEXANDER TURGENEV, DMITRY GLUKHOVSKY)
ФЕНОМЕН ЗНАНИЯ ЗАДНИМ ЧИСЛОМ В КОНТЕКСТЕ РУССКОГО КОНСЕРВАТИВНОГО И ПРОГРЕССИВНОГО МЫШЛЕНИЯ (АЛЕКСАНДР ТУРГЕНЕВ, ДМИТРИЙ ГЛУХОВСКИЙ)

Summary/Abstract: In this article, Charles Louis de Montesquieu’s parable of the savage peoples was used to examine the aspect of totalitarianism based on myths of the past that can no longer evolve. The properties of progressive thinking and the crisis of conservative thinking exemplified in the literary works of Alexander Turgenev (1784– 1845) and Dmitry Glukhovsky (born 1979) are examined through the lens of the cultural situation at the beginning of the XIX and XXI centuries. Both types of thinking involve the phenomenon of the wisdom of hindsight (знание задним числом) which activates myth-making thinking and turns the described reality into a dystopian one. The retrospective method uses the well-thought-out ideas and concepts of Bernard Stiegler and Vardan Hayrapetyan, namely the Promethean and Epimethean orders, the temporalizations of êpimêtheia and promêtheia, as well as the progressive, conservative and myth-making types of thinking.

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