Новая Атлантида, Касталия, Телемское аббатство

Abstract

The text gives a brief description of the history of the generation of intellectuals, which is commonly called the generation of the nineties. The author reflects on the path of this generation, choosing for analysis the fate of a small company of his classmates, those who at the moment have passed the fifty-year mark and have probably reached the acme of social maturity. It is emphasized that this generation has achieved great results in philosophical activity. The author notes the reason for his own alienation from the path of his generation and finds it in an internal protest against the tendency characteristic of his classmates to intellectually withdraw themselves from their time in order to be placed in a different context – temporal or spatial. It is noted that this very aspiration was borrowed by representatives of the generation of the nineties from the philosophical leaders of the sixties. The problem of the philosophical generation is considered in the context of the centuries-old search of the intellectual class for its place in society in obvious conflict with the social hierarchies existing in the traditional agrarian-class world.