Философское открытие имени и иконы: хронологические параллели и идейный генезис

Abstract

The article describes the discovery of “name” and “icon” as two new philosophic categories in Russian philosophy of the Silver Age and the formation of two new directions in Russian thought – “philosophy of name” and “philosophy of icon” – in their close interconnection. It is noted that those directions of thought developed in parallel to each other, which can be found on the pages of the similar or even the same works of the same group of philosophers – E. Trubetskoy, P. Florensky, A. Losev, S. Bulgakov. Similar features of the ideological genesis and problems of those areas of thought are considered in detail, among which are: criticism of secularism and church modernism, opposition to the “new religious consciousness” and the choice of historical Christianity, interest in real religious tradition and practice, and philosophical resort to Patristics, including their predecessor, – Father John of Kronstadt. In general, the author concludes that those trends in Russian thought are deeply interconnected, from their ideological genesis to philosophical problems, which are manifested in the similar understanding of the categories of “name” and “icon” at different levels – ontological, epistemological, communicative, and personalistic.