«Рождённые в года глухие…»

Abstract

In the article against the background of the fate of a generation whose acme coincided with the 70-90 years we are talking about the possibility of tying up the broken times even when the machine of a powerful and, as it seemed to many people at the time, eternal empire was working for “breaking”. Features of the “philosophical generation” of the last third of the XX century. are highlighted in the context of the author’s personal experience, cultural characteristics of the Late Soviet era, the functioning of cultural institutions, dialogue, and interaction of generations. A characteristic feature of this generation is seen as the dominant of the history of philosophy, under the auspices of which often went the processes of thinking about the acute problems of modern times. It is argued that intergenerational dialogue can take place even in the context of deliberate isolation of individuals and groups, both from each other and from contemporary international public opinion, created by State ideological policies. Special attention is paid to the phenomenon of “cultural science”: science, which was, on the one hand, an artificial product of “perestroika”, but on the other hand – the result of fruitful attempts to overcome the loss of world culture, to integrate the accumulated humanitarian knowledge of previous epochs into some integrity. In the mirror of cultural science reflected the entire dynamics of generations of the late XX century.