Концепция русского космизма Марлен Ларюэль

Abstract

Marlene Laruelle, a prominent French historian, sociologist and political scientist specializing in the study of Russian nationalism and nationalism in the countries of the post-Soviet space, has been paying increasing attention to Russian cosmism in recent years. In Laruelle's works one can find different, complementary ideas, which she calls cosmism. The French researcher dates the main manifestations of Russian cosmism to the 1920s, classifying the project of embalming Lenin’s body with the aim of bringing him back to life with the help of future scientific technologies as such manifestations of "maximalist ideology". M.Laruelle seeks to explore cosmism in our country in the context of its historical emergence but does not consider that the expression "Russian cosmism" itself appeared only in the late 1960s. The French researcher does not consider cosmism to be an exclusively Russian cultural phenomenon; she explores it in the context of larger intellectual traditions, such as occultism. Russian cosmism appears in her works as an intellectual hybrid, a product of crossing many intellectual traditions. M. Laruelle politicizes Russian cosmism, trying to present it as one of the doctrines that shapes modern Russian nationalism. In her political science concept, cosmism, along with еurasianism and аrcticism, appears as one of the three geographical metanarratives of modern Russia. M. Laruelle is quite biased in his political assessments. The French researcher pays undeservedly little attention to V.I. Vernadsky and his teaching about the transition of the biosphere to the noosphere stage.