Поколение потерь (эссе на заданную тему)

Abstract

Generation is a sociological concept, and by virtue of this alone it is not applicable to philosophy, understood as an exclusively personal, subjective matter, as a special way of life in the space of self-sufficient thinking. The philosopher does not see himself as belonging to the philosophical generation as a certain set of philosophers (although he belongs to his generation as a social being). The philosophical generation for the philosopher is a superfluous concept, for it is embodied, in its uniqueness. Nevertheless, answering the question about his own philosophical generation, the author defines it as a “loss generation” (different from the lost generation). Its losses are numerous: the loss of a single philosophical foundation, a single conceptual language, a single set of commented texts (quotes), the loss of a social future – a utopia, an ideal perspective, and a loss of demand in the public space, a consciousness of one's own significance – this is the loss of what was sixties. The generation that can be associated with perestroika did not become the generation of revolution (which confirms the understanding of what happened as the final stage of the long process of counter-revolution) and is deprived of the anti-bourgeois pathos that was the value basis of philosophy since at least the 19th century.