«Decline of esthetics» in the cultural conception of D.N. Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky: a sight from the present.

Krutous V. P.

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Doubt is often cast nowadays on the previously stable triad of the truth, good and beauty, which is destroyed in one way or another. Proceeding from the principles of positivism the Russian scholar-humanitarian D.N. Ovsya¬niko-Kulikovsky (1853-1920) declared beauty a fiction. In the article it is shown that the scholar's stand as «the de¬stroyer of aesthetics» is determined by his general cultur-ological concept. The recognition of polarity in culture (normal/abnormal, pathological; health/illness) was an¬other characteristic feature of this concept. The author of this article believes that it was an outstanding and bold attempt to introduce fundamental opposition of cul¬ture/counterculture into the Russian science of culture. It is also pointed out that in making specific studies the scholar was inconsequent with the methodologically fruitful idea advanced by him.

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Issue: 3, 2000

Series of issue: Humanities (Special Issue)

Rubric: Problems of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Culture

Pages: 10 — 16

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