Lyubimova T. B. (1941–2020): Tradition and Civilization

the article provides an overview of the work of T. B. Lyubimova, an original Russian thinker, a representative of the aesthetic school of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. During her rich creative life, Tatyana Borisovna has explored a wide range of the most intriguing topics: the aesthetic categories of the comic / tragic and the sociology of music, the metaphysical dimension of politics and the ideology of modernization, initiatory traditions and the profanation of the spiritual. She was interested in the issues of the formation of the spiritual elite, the essence of metaphysical goal-setting, theater as a liturgical practice. The big theme of her life was traditionalism as an integral worldview system and a view of the world of a single tradition, the traces of which T. B. Lyubimova reconstructed from ancient philosophy, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam. Particular attention is paid to the final monograph by T. B. Lyubimova "Philosophy and Countertradition" (Moscow: Golos, 2019, 292 p.), where the author demarcates tradition, pseudo-tradition and anti-tradition and seeks to lead the reader on a razor's edge between the temptations of profaning the spiritual, mass representation of esoteric practices and their vulgar interpretation