Културната типология на Филип Риф и приложимостта й за литературната хибридизация на теологичните идеи за човечеството и духовния напредък (български пример)
Philip Rieff’s Typology of Culture and its Applicability to the Literary Hybridization of the Theological Ideas of Humanity and Spiritual Progress (A Bulgarian Case Study)

Summary/Abstract: The twentieth century has become in a special way a time of reflection on the theological roots of human thinking, including thinking in political terms; it would be enough to mention such names as Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmidt and Erich Voegelin. One of the thinkers who joined the ongoing disputes was Philip Rieff who, in his book My Life Among the Deathworks (2006), embarked on a much discussed (according to many) revitalization of the Judeo-Christian paradigm. Reflecting on the subject of art works over several centuries, he abstracted typological criteria allowing him to build a dichotomous model of art, should it be dedicated to death (non-Judeo-Christian variant) or life (Judeo-Christian variant). The paper tries to verify his reasoning by reflecting on humanity’s theological model and spiritual progress in Theodora Dimova’s novel The Train to Emmaus (2014).

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