Russian traditionalism as a principle of Russian modernization

Authors

  • Сергей Васильевич Полатайко Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences Saint Petersburg Academic University, 8/3, Khlopina Str, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/10.21638/11701/spbu17.2017.113

Abstract

The article focuses on the role of Russian traditionalism in the formation of national identity in Russia and especially its actualization from a historical perspective. Based on the ideas of N. Danilevsky and KN Leontiev, the author defends the thesis that the logic of national reality expresses its structural contents. This is the essence of the national tradition whose stability is set out as productive interaction through, on the one hand, conditional objective factors (natural) and, on the other, relatively subjective (mental, moral) factors. And if the first, being passive, is tradition, the second, its activity, is determined. The article stresses that any self-knowledge is an expression of active attitude of the people in the first case to itself through correlation of the activity (its goals and forms) with the objective order of things. The Russian-Russian understanding can be  understood as the identification of stable, reproducible regularly, structural relationships in their natural and artificial relativity.

Keywords:

civilization strategy, national tradition, bio-politics, identity, the Russian revolution, modernization

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Published

2018-09-24

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Полатайко, С. В. (2018). Russian traditionalism as a principle of Russian modernization. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 33(1), 119–126. https://doi.org/10.21638/10.21638/11701/spbu17.2017.113

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Vol. 33 No. 1 (2017): Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies

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Cultural studies

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