Methodological Basis Of Cultural Interaction Between Russia And The West

Abstract

The paper makes an attempt to understand the dichotomy of the East and the West, as well as the genesis of Eurasianism. The comparative analysis of works of thinkers of the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries made it possible to uncover the importance of Eurasianism; to determine opposing cultural and historical types and to define criteria uniting ethnic groups into a single community. Over a half of the century scientists have been studying the interaction of cultures of the East and the West, interpreting the civilization theory and understanding the concept of Eurasianism. The paper studies the concept of Eurasianism derived from the dichotomy of cultures of the East and the West thus defining its purpose – to reveal the methodological basis of cultural interaction of the East and the West. The study was based on dialectic logic, comparative and philosophical analysis. A theoretical conclusion is that concreteness and energetic aspect of human life have mutually inverse trends in their development: minimum thematic definiteness of human identity is accompanied by the maximum energetic focus of love. The maximum thematic definiteness is accompanied by the energetic minimum. Perhaps the crisis of the idea of Eurasianism is connected with the super idea weakened by energetic seizure, idea of love, idea of unitotality. The development strategy of any cultural and historical type is possible in conditions of powerful energetic concentration on super ideas. All countries are concerned with the search of the idea directing and uniting the community members.