Апофатика и институционализация: прагмасемантический анализ

Abstract

The article contains an attempt to generalize and systematize the content and role of the apophatic worldview attitude, which is characteristic of Russian culture. This attitude sources are determined by the specificity of the semantic picture of Eastern Christianity, by the political and economic history of Russia. From this point of view, culture acts as a pragmatic-semantic interface for the generation, selection, storage, reproduction, and transmission of social experience. The conducted consideration reveals the nature of the “rut” effect, the inverse nature of the development of Russian society in a new way. An analysis of the manifestations of this attitude in political life, economics, and artistic culture shows that apophaticism can act not only as a barrier, but also as a resource for the country development which implies a distinct socio-cultural engineering aimed at preserving and developing human and social capital.