Neopogański wymiar współczesnej rosyjskiej filozofii: cielesność kontra racjonalność

Abstract

The Neo-Pagan Dimension of Modern Russian Philosophy: Corporality vs RationalityThe article analyses the essence of and reasons for the “neo-pagan turn” of Russian culture and philosophy of the 19th–21st centuries to the theme of “corporality”, which is presented in a wide range of approaches, from Russian Romanticism to modern Russian projects of “new metaphysics” and “progressive archaism”. The author exemplifies the actualization of the corporality theme as the renaissance of neo-paganism in philosophical discourse with phenomena of the Silver Age, Russian philosophy of the first part of the 20th century (represented by V. Rozanov’s, N. Berdyaev’s and L. Shestov’s concepts), Soviet natural philosophy prose of the 1960s–1980s (Ch. Aitmatov, V. Rasputin, V. Astafayev), and modern Russian political philosophy (the National-Bolshevik project led by Aleksandr Dugin). It is concluded that neo-paganism is an invariant cultural phenomenon, an attempt to solve problems of modern society and modern man. Therefore, it functions as a new ideological strategy, new philosophy and new religion.