O. A. Zhukova's New Book in the Top List of the non/fictioNo.25 Book Fair

The book 'Creativity and Religiosity in Russian Culture. Philosophical Research' by the chief research fellow of the Laboratory, Professor Olga A. Zhukova was included in the top list of the fair by independent experts

Abstract.
In a new monograph by the Russian philosopher and cultural critic O. A. Zhukova, professor at the National Research University 'Higher School of Economics' (HSE), the subject of the analysis is the phenomenon of creativity, considered in Russian philosophical thought, religious and artistic practices. The interdependence of religion, literature and art, noted in ancient Russian culture, was specifically inherited and reinterpreted in the creative experience of the authors of secular culture of the modern type, contributing to the formation of a religiously colored tradition of philosophizing with a gravitation to the problems of being and cognition, ontological aesthetics and ethics, axiology of creativity, metaphysics of history. The theurgic impulse of Russian culture is read in the aspiration of its creators to embody moral and aesthetic values in the horizon of the absolute, which finds vivid expression both in intellectual and creative experience and in the struggle for the ideals of public life. The author problematise the topic of creativity in the history of Russian culture, identifies the features of ideological programs, religious and aesthetic intuitions of Russian thinkers and writers of the second half of the XIX – first half of the XX centuries in the variety of genres of artistic and philosophical discourse created by them. In the book, the author continues to develop the philosophical concept of the idealocentricity of Russian culture, thematizing the way of salvation, or justification by creativity, characteristic of the Russian cultural tradition, which removes the contradiction between autonomous reason and religious experience. Many outstanding representatives of Russian culture have tried to philosophically legitimize and embody in creative and social practice this type of spiritual, intellectual and aesthetic gnosis, which reaches its limit in knowledge of God, and in history — in the idea of creating culture and human perfection, in social and national state building.The monograph offers an original interpretative model of the dynamics of Russian culture as an intellectual history, personalized by the experiences of religious, philosophical and artistic creativity.

The monograph is intended for specialists in the field of the history of Russian thought, metaphysics of creativity, aesthetics, ethics, as well as students and postgraduates, and a wide range of readers interested in the philosophy of Russian culture, art and religion.

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