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Мировоззренческая метаморфоза Н. В. Гоголя и социальность мышления
Gogol’s N. V. World Outlook Metamorphosis

Author(s): Mikhail Prokhorov
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, History of Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Russian Literature
Published by: Международное философско-космологическое общество
Keywords: being; sociability; existential; serfdom; «monastery»; «sin»; development; ascent; descent; reinterpretation;

Summary/Abstract: The sense of the concept of a sociality of thinking and its denial is opened in the article. Denial of social thinking the author of article traces by the research of known work of N.V. Gogol "The chosen places from correspondence with friends".In it, the writer autobiographical precisely recorded the radical world outlook metamorphosis, which has occurred to it. Its essence, as it is shown in M.M. Prokhorov's work, consists in the refusal of a sociality of thinking and in transition to positions of religious outlook that occurred for the existential reasons generated by a serious illness of N.V. Gogol. Reaction to these phenomena from the life of the known writer and the thinker of his contemporaries in Russia from different social groups is opened in the article. Historical conditions of changes and communication with the present in which in present Russia there are the similar changes generated by strengthening in the life of religious representations are shown, leading to the similar phenomena in Post-Soviet Russia, including and reaction to them.

  • Issue Year: 13/2014
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 245-257
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian