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• Female archetypes of Bunin’s images

  Ildikó Mária Rácz

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  The system of ideas, Sophiology and philosophy of love of Vladimir Solovyov had a significant influence on the religious philosophy and formation of aesthetic views of the Russian Silver Age. Although the Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer in exile, Ivan Bunin, consciously distanced himself from the ideological and poetic tendencies of Russian Symbolism, the philosophical roots of Bunin’s prose after 1910 can be traced in Russian religious philosophy and Eastern religious teachings (Buddhism and Taoism). Bunin’s philosophy of love is also imbued with the dualistic vision that is fundamental to his philosophy of being, and the dichotomy of ‘heavenly’ and ‘earthly’ love is reflected in the ‘angelic’ and ‘demonic’ opposites of his female figures. Yet the former is the embodiment of the unattainable ideal of the Eternal Feminine, the latter, the Femme Fatale, the bearer of the earthly promise of carnal pleasures, of sexuality. The author’s female heroines also include the avatar of the Wise Woman (the embodiment of some ancient, archaic wisdom) or the Emanation of Isis (as the embodiment of cosmic energy, standing above the earthly laws of life and death). And like the symbols of yin and yang in Chinese philosophy, in the depths of each of Bunin’s female figures lurks something of its opposite.

• The Outlines of Meaning’s Analysis of Social Phenomena in the Concept of S. L. Frank

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  Natalya Matveeva

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  358

  The present paper deals with the problem of how cultural meanings are perceived in S. L.
  Frank’s social theory. His conception lies between two main paths of sociological thought:
  Durkheim’s cognition of social facts as objective phenomena on the one hand, and Weber’s
  cognition of subjective meanings of personal actions, on the other. In his theory Frank concentrates
  on the concept of objective forming idea-force, which resembles the concept of
  social fact in its quality of exerting pressure on individual consciousness and volition, but it
  should be brought into harmony with interpretive methodology. In Frank’s view social ideas
  are regarded as a force forming social relations and therefore lie in the foundation of social
  institutions. These are, for example, ideas of state, of family, of friendship and so on. Social
  ideas are connected with the consciousness of the individual by their moral force. That is
  why such ideas are accepted by the individual at the emotional level of his spiritual life,
  because they believe that these ideas are true and organize their meanings and activities according
  to them. Thus social meanings of moral good or evil in human relations and in the
  social structure arise. At the same time they signify the emergence of sacred phenomena in
  society. Human beings, according the Frank’s theory, have an internal need to be possessed
  by the sacred senses that give them the feeling of the participation in the implementation of
  the transcendent goals. Society is an objective living idea which provides sacred meanings
  for the individual. On the whole, a society’s life is formed by the historically specific complex
  of ideas that are freely accepted or rejected by individuals and determine their feelings and
  behavior. There is no contradiction between personal freedom, creativity and social structure
  in S. Frank’s theory. The author of the present paperfinds similarities between S.Frank’s ideas
  and the fundamentals of cultural sociology.

• The chronotope of O. E. Mandelshtam’s Poems about the Unknown Soldier

  Sergei Shul’ts

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  The chronotope of O.E. Mandelstam’s Poems about the Unknown Soldier has at least three levels: (1)  the level  of internal time-space as immanent to the subject, the author-hero; this is the level of subjective refraction of events in individual consciousness/thinking; (2) the  level of external time-space: the historical and natural beginning of world life (historical and physical cosmos) in their correlation; here worldly life is presented as if outside any of its perception from the outside, “by itself”; and (3) the mythical-symbolic dimension shining through the other two; the events here are interpreted in their parabolical content, including in the aspect of the philosophy of culture and intertextuality as a kind of “new mythology”.

• Damaskin Semenov-Rudnev: Philosopher and Panegyricist

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  Adam Drozdek

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  The article provides a short summary of the philosophical and theological views of Damaskin Semenov-Rudnev, an 18th century Russian clerical leader, on the basis of his philosophical theses and sermons. The article also shows that his theology served as a means for consolidating the imperial power of Catherine II.

• "React with Cobra's Speed to Everyday Life" On the Trap of Actuality - Andrzej Stasiuk's Beskidy and World Chronicles (2018)

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  Agnieszka Janiec-Nyitrai

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  The goal of the paper is to analyze and depict the essays written by Polish contemporary
  author Andrzej Stasiuk in the wider context of writing strategies. The essays were collected
  in Beskidy and World Chronicles (2018). The paper also deals with Stasiuk's "workshop
  comments" about the art of writing and is concerned with author's attitude to changes in social,
  cultural and political life. Stasiuk searches for harmony and calmness. What he writes
  about is not topicalities but universal themes: nature, philosophy of living, everyday life.
  All that he can see in mass media is very strange and outlandish for him, while he looks for
  eternal values, describing chaos in modern world.

• Hero of Contemporary Russian Prose: Anna Skotnicka, Szczelina. Bohater współczesnej prozy rosyjskiej i jego światy, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2020, 335 s. ISBN: 978-83-233-4771-2

  Elżbieta Tyszkowska-Kasprzak

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  The text contains a review of the monograph by the Polish literary critic Anna Skotniсka A fissure: A hero of contemporary Russian prose and his worlds. The author considers incompleteness, absence, and insufficiency as a property of the existence of the character of the works of Russian writers of the late 20^th to early 21^st centuries. The sources of this problem, according to Skotnicka, can be seen in the state of disintegration of the social, psychological and mental image of the world in a changing reality, especially historical changes: the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as political, cultural and social transformations. With these phenomena, the Polish literary critic also connects the concept of chaos, which is characteristic of the postmodern perception of the world as disunited, incomprehensible, alien in relation to people. Skotniсka considers these problems based on the works of Mikhail Kuraev, Svetlana Aleksievich, Roman Senchin, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Vladimir Makanin, and Mikhail Shishkin. The author refers to the current achievements of the humanities, especially philosophy. The work is innovative and stimulates reflection on the state of the modern human.

• Rácz, Ildikó Mária: A lét és a szerelem szentsége. Ivan Bunyin művészi világképe. L’Harmattan, Budapest 2020, 373 pp. ISBN 978-963-414-681-0

  Ágnes Dukkon

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  This review presents a critical analysis of the monograph on Bunin by the Hungarian researcher Ildikó Mária Rácz. The author describes the main thematic blocs of the volume, for example, the influence of classic Russian literature on Bunin (Turgeniev, Tolstoi, Chekhov, and Tiutchev), the role of Eastern philosophy in the evolution of Bunin’s art, the connection between the modern psychological concepts (Freud, Jung) and the short stories as Mitya’s love or The grammar of love.

• One can only Understand a Journey by Embarking on it

  Antonina Nikonova

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  The present article is devoted to a new field of research in humanities–the „hygiene of culture” and its leader – Olga Szűcs. The formation of an international researh community is a long and difficult procedure. In the course of the development of the theoretical and the empirical basis of the „hygiene of culture” owing to Olga Szűcs’s personal qualities,the scientific and ethnic norms of a collective of researchers working in different fields of humanities have been set. The results of the research have been published in collective monographs. The paper considers Olga Szűcs’s main scientific contributions to this field and the role she played in this scientific project.

• S. S. Bobrov’s Ode "The Kingdom of Universal Love": Erotogenesis and Phenomenology of Love (1785)

  Aleksey Petrov

  Svetlana Rudakova

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  Among the genre concepts of Love formed in the poetry of the 18th century (erotic-political myth about the love of monarchs in an epithalamic ode; triumph of flesh and physiology in priapic ode; hedonism in anacreontic ode) a special place is occupied by the concept of historiosophical ode. In one of the works of this genre – «The Kingdom of Total Love» by S. S. Bobrov – an attempt was made to combine Eros and History. The ideas of Bobrov, a freemason poet, about the origin of Love go back to the myths of various genesis. Another idea was that Love brings light and harmony to non-living nature, and living nature is completely submitted to the Law of Love – the Law of the continuation of Life. In general, Love appears in Bobrov's historiosophical ode as a harmonizing cosmic force.