Post-liberal Communitarianism in Contemporary Russia: Future in the Legacy of the Past

Abstract

The address to communitarianism as a system of ideas and a model of the “ideal type” of a public organization can serve as the foundation for scientific and philosophical research of the problems of organizing public dialogue and social consolidation, the implementation of the organic relationship of technological progress with institutional and anthropological conservatism. The issue of communitarianism has a certain tradition in Russian thought of different eras and directions (Slavophilism, philosophy of the “new religious consciousness”, Eurasianism, ethical and anthropological studies in Soviet – orthodox and non–Marxist – philosophy and certain recent historical, philosophical and political science works), which is both indirect and in some cases quite direct. Comparing the approaches of domestic and foreign authors to the factors of transformation of society on the principles of social harmony allows us to conclude that when in Western philosophy communitarianism is simply the criticism of liberalism and the search for a balance between various social forces interests, in Russia it is capable to reach a fundamentally higher axiological and theoretical level within the framework of integration with the conceptual baggage of the Russian idea and the real experience of the state of social justice understanding.