Abstract
This paper is a continuation of a large study in two parts on the metaphysics of labor in Russian culture, literature and philosophy. In the second part of the work, the team of authors, continuing to consider the phenomenon of labor in synchronism and diachrony, addresses а person and its attitude towards work in a postmodern society. The phenomenon of labor is analyzed in close connection with economic, moral, axiological spheres of life of the modern man. One of the main issues in a current situation of globalism is the issue of relationship between categories of “labor” and “leisure”. Can civilization be built on a foundation of leisure and not labor? Global transformation of the axiological status of labor has occurred in the culture of modern society. This process has got not only economic metrics associated with production and consumption, but also affects an axiological layer of culture associated with existential experiences of the individual. Man does not just work to satisfy his physical needs; the teleology of labor is always important, which implies answers to the questions: “For what does a person work?” and “For what is he ready to spend his free time of his life?” In a postindustrial, networked, consumer society, principles of the global Protestant work ethic, which constituted the foundation of capitalist civilization, no longer work. The study involved analytical, historical, descriptive and systematic methods of analysis.
Highlights
In 2019, a team of scientists, philosophers and cultural specialists planned to write a large-scale study on the philosophy of labor in Russia, the metaphysical foundations of the phenomenon of labor in the national space
In the first part of the article devoted to the study of the metaphysical essence of labor in the Russian national image of the world, we turned to the works of Russian philosophers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, N
We are interested in the phenomenon of labor in synchrony and diachrony — how the philosophy of work originated in Russia, how philosophers, writers and ordinary people in everyday life relate to work
Summary
In 2019, a team of scientists, philosophers and cultural specialists planned to write a large-scale study on the philosophy of labor in Russia, the metaphysical foundations of the phenomenon of labor in the national space. In the first part of the article devoted to the study of the metaphysical essence of labor in the Russian national image of the world, we turned to the works of Russian philosophers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, N. In the second part of the study, we turn to the phenomenon of labor in modern Russia, in a postmodern society, and in the world, examining labor in connection with morality, culture, economy, etc. Appeal to modern society and analysis of human labor activity today allows us to trace the transformation of the philosophy of work in Russian culture
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