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Прощай, гуманизм размышления по поводу фильма Якова Сегеля «Прощайте, Голуби»
Goodbye, humanism reflections on Yakov Segel's film «Goodbye, Doves»

Author(s): Wasilij Georgievich Szczukin
Subject(s): Anthropology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Pragmatism, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Hermeneutics
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: the feature "Goodbye; doves!"; Yakov Segel; humanism; Khrushchev's thaw; pragmatism; postmodernism;

Summary/Abstract: The article, written in the form of an essay, is the first attempt to analyze in detail the complex ethical and axiological subtext and anthropological symbolism of the feature film "Goodbye, Doves" (1960) by Yakov Segel, one of the iconic cultural texts of the Khrushchev thaw period. The aim of the research is to comprehensively study the phenomenal nature and noumenal meaning of the model of humanism typical for that time. The research methodology is based on hermeneutic ascent from the analysis of contexts, in which the word man is used twelve times throughout the film, to the essence of humanism of the era of liberation from the totalitarian heritage. The final part of the article describes a sharp change in the anthropological paradigm from the newenlightenment to the postmodern in the late sixties of the twentieth century. On the basis of comparison of two anthropological paradigms and two approaches to understanding of the essence of a man, the noosphere and the semiosphere, the author concludes that the direct consequence of the accession of the postmodern worldview model in the sphere of humanitarian knowledge was the crisis of modern humanism, from the Renaissance to the sixties of the 20th century.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 48-67
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Russian