Intellectual Context Research Articles

The system of the genius: the French New Wave’s politique des producteurs

ABSTRACT This essay constructs a post-auteurist historiography of the French New Wave centred on the role of the producer. Examining the scattered recollections and contradictory accounts of producers Pierre Braunberger, Anatole Dauman, Georges de Beauregard, Mag Bodard and Christine Gouze-Rénal, the author builds a case for considering the New Wave’s director-oriented legacy, its aura of genius creators, as in part the product of producers’ own tactics and attitudes of self-effacement. By conceiving of the New Wave producer figure as curatorial – curating a movement and a sensibility in the role of patron and promoter of both films and directors – this investigation finds a production culture shaped by particular economic, cultural and intellectual contexts that enabled the New Wave to exist and thrive. This production culture positioned itself outside the established production industries of France. It was also masculinist and characterised by gender imbalance. Finding that women productrices faced unique challenges and setbacks, sometimes at the hands of their fellow producers, the essay analyses the hidden role of the New Wave producer while recognising that this role’s agency varied based on gender.

HISTORY'S NARRATIVE EXPLANATION UNDER THE LOGIC OF CAUSAL IMPUTATION: AN ESSAY IN HONOR OF MAX WEBER'S DEATH CENTENARY

ABSTRACTOne hundred years have passed since Max Weber's death. This article explores an aspect of his work that, although fundamental, has received little attention in theoretical discussions about historiography: the relationship between explanation and narration. This article's analysis proceeds from two basic hypotheses: (1) some of the questions posed by narrativism to theory of history were already present in Weber's intellectual context; (2) in Weber's work, we can find a helpful, albeit nearly forgotten, answer to these questions insofar as his proposal situates the narrative explanation of history in the logical framework of causal imputation. Based on these hypotheses, this article's central objective is to examine how and to what extent a return to Weber can shed new light on the problem of historical explanation without disregarding its narrative nature. The article's first step, then, is to briefly review the fundamental questions posed by narrativism to the theory of history, with an emphasis on the structure of a historical narration; after that, it shows how and to what extent we can find a response to these questions in Weber's work. Ultimately, the article seeks to demonstrate the compatibility between the structure of a narrative, as evidenced by Arthur C. Danto, and the logical‐causal explanation model proposed by Weber, which will serve as the basis for a clearer distinction between historical narratives and fictional ones.

The Emergence of Relativism: German Thought from the Enlightenment to National Socialism

The Emergence of Relativism: German Thought from the Enlightenment to National Socialism

Christopher Markiewicz, The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty

Reviewed by: The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty by Christopher Markiewicz Ali Anooshahr Christopher Markiewicz, The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019, Pp. xiii, 345. Cloth $120.00, e-book $96.00. ISBN: 9781108492140 Christopher Markiewicz seeks to investigate what he calls the new vocabulary of sovereignty involving cosmic and divine factors that supplemented earlier norms based on Islamic law and genealogy. He considers the fifteenth century crucial for this phenomenon, when such notions were developed and spread by specific individuals. He takes the historian and intellectual, Idris Bidlisi (d. 1520), as the subject of his study, because he “acted as both recipient and shaper of a political culture in flux in both the Aqquyunlu Sultanate…and the Ottoman Sultanate” (p. 20). Essentially, Markiewicz argues that while in the Ottoman Empire, Bidlisi incorporated in his writings ideas of kingship that had developed in Timurid Iran, and these in turn impacted Ottoman political culture. The book is made up of two parts, the first provides a biographical overview while the second discusses the intellectual contributions of Idris. Chapter one outlines Bidlisi’s early life, education, and experience in Iran during the Aqquyunlu period. Chapter two continues the narrative with Idris’ career in the Ottoman Empire where the author emigrated following the rise of the Safavids in Iran. Being rather disappointed in his hopes and aspirations, Idris subsequently tried his luck in more easterly regions during Sultan Selim’s activities in eastern Anatolia, Iran, Syria, and Egypt. Markiewicz covers this period in chapter three. Chapter four begins the discussion of particular political concepts, showing the new vocabulary of sovereignty applied to Timur, in particular the identification of the monarch as sahib qiran (lord of the Conjunctions) [End Page 361] and mujaddid (the renewer). Chapter five traces new historiographical developments in the same period, both in Iran and the Ottoman Empire. Finally, chapter six traces the formation of particularly Aqquyunlu notions of sovereignty in the period, khilafat-i rahmani (the vice-regency of God) and the ultimate coalescence of all three concepts in the Ottoman Empire especially during the reign of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent (d. 1566). The Crisis of Kingship provides the first English-language monograph-length study of Idris Bidlisi and his times. It makes a number of important contributions by discovering and highlighting numerous biographical details, by placing Idris within his historical and intellectual context, by offering perceptive readings of scholars such as Jalal al-Din Davani (d. 1502), and by tracing the three particular concepts of kingship against the backdrop of political, religious, and philosophical developments of the period. The latter is particularly significant as chapter five provides a very thorough overview of the growing field of Persian historical writings in the fifteenth century, which can be read profitably alongside Markiewicz’s earlier and important article in the Journal of Early Modern history 21 (2017), pp 216–240. For all these the author must be commended. On the other hand, the book is open to criticism for a number of reasons. For one, Markiewicz does not engage sufficiently with Idris’s most important work, the monumental chronicle of the House of Osman the Hasht Bihisht. A thorough reading of this work and comparison with similar material in other Ottoman chronicles would really help situate Idris’s place in the Ottoman historical tradition and in turn indicate his overall outlook on sovereignty. For example, the material in the Hasht Bihisht often bears great similarity with the chronicle of Ruhi, itself reflecting trends at the court of Mehmed II that attempted to place the House of Osman specifically in the Roman Imperial tradition, going so far as to claim that the Ottomans were descendants of Esau (who was known to have had lighter features), and that they were meant to defend civilization against the Gog and the Magog (and Turks) as had Alexander the Great. This is significant because it shows how Markiewicz primarily sees “influence” as unidirectional thereby overemphasizing Idris’s impact on the Ottomans (and not the other...

Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West

Over a millennium ago, images began to appear in Christian church settings—as decorations of holy book covers, within the pages of books, and on church walls—of Jesus exorcizing a multitude of demons, named Legion, from a man into a herd of pigs who then rush into the sea and drown. In using this biblical story to frame the narrative of Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West, Jamie Kreiner makes clear the ambiguities of the pig as “both unholy and redemptive, both historically situated and universally relevant” (195). The pigs as Legion and a legion of pigs on farm and field are intertwined.Rather than approaching the history of the pig as only an issue of agricultural production, Kreiner examines it as “a history of the counterintuitive connections that developed between the micro-universes of pig husbandry and early medieval institutions and ideas on a wider scale” (4). She uses the pig as an entry point for thinking through how early medieval people thought about their environment. Her approach is to place the pig within wider social, cultural, and economic contexts of the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods, roughly AD 400 to 1000. While the evidence is focused on Western Europe, particularly the kingdoms of the Carolingians and Ottonians, which occupied large parts of what are today France, Germany, the Low Countries, and northern Italy, and kingdoms on the British Isles, Kreiner deftly weaves in sources from across Europe, stretching to the Islamic lands that were in continuous contact with their Christian counterparts.In her introduction, Kreiner stresses that the flexibility of pigs resulted in dynamic ecological systems in early medieval Europe. Human communities adapted their systems to accommodate pigs, who while potentially highly productive could also be highly unruly. This plays out in chapter 1, which underscores the distinctions medieval people drew between wild boar and domestic pig, the variability of landscapes that swine could be raised on, and attempts to control unwanted pig behaviors.The micro-universe of pig husbandry is then set within the much larger context of medieval philosophy in chapter 2. In this chapter, pigs scarcely appear—and yet the chapter puts the pig and its Christianization (which is discussed later) into the intellectual context of the age through a highly accessible explanation of medieval notions of environmental connectivity and complexity.Chapter 3 gets back to the pigs and their landscapes. Kreiner approaches swine husbandry as extracting value out of the landscape or, as she calls it, “salvaging.” Through their ability to turn found foods in the environment into food on human tables, pigs made the landscape productive for people. How they did this—by forest foraging, pasture grazing, or stall feeding—varied according to ecological and economic conditions. Kreiner brings together an impressive collection of sources to explain that variability.In chapter 4, the focus is on the assemblage of humans and pigs and the social groups that were created and modified by those relations. The section on swineherds in particular gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the economic and social status of those closest to pigs. She also shows how pork consumption was a Roman tradition, which had both ideological and practical implications, for example in the provisioning of soldiers with pork through taxes. Chapter 5 starts with the pig as Roman animal and then discusses how the pig became associated with Christians, both in symbolic and dietary forms. Kreiner stresses the counterintuitive connections here, as the pig takes on both diabolical natures and Christian conviction. The legions of pigs and Legion in pigs are co-constituted.Kreiner's book is written with non-medievalists in mind—she elucidates time-specific social and legal terms so that they are understandable without a background in the period. She finds just the right balance of using source materials to support her arguments without getting bogged down in details. Her writing style is a delight to read. This book demonstrates how medieval environmental and agricultural history can be written as a history of ideas and culture with wide appeal.

Archbishop Pecham and an Annotated Fragment of Peter Lombard’s Commentarius in Psalmos Davidicos at Tulane University

In 2015, the Special Collections Department of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University acquired from Bernard Quaritch a parchment bifolium, formerly used as a pastedown, from a thirteenth-century copy of Peter Lombard’s Commentarius in Psalmos Davidicos, written c.1148. The bifolium contains three annotations that shed new light on a momentous event in medieval Oxford—the 1286 condemnation by Archbishop John Pecham of several heresies, as he called them, related to the teaching of the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. Pecham’s condemnation restated an earlier one by his predecessor, Robert Kilwardby, in 1277. His rhetoric, however, was much stronger than Kilwardby’s and contributed to the hardening of opposition to Aquinas’s philosophy in England. Most of the documents associated with the condemnation have been known and published for some time: Pecham’s own register at Lambeth Palace; the annals of Oseney Abbey, where the archbishop convened a meeting with Oxford’s masters of theology before issuing his condemnation; and the annals of Dunstable Priory, which record the condemnation and its unfortunate sequel, the death by suicide of one of Pecham’s opponents. The Tulane bifolium is a new contribution to the archive that illustrates how an unprepossessing fragment can alter our knowledge of a major event in late medieval intellectual history. This article describes the bifolium, correcting significant errors in the Quaritch catalogue description, provides editions of the annotations, traces their sources, and discusses their wider intellectual context.

Paving the Way for Dutch Colonial Missions: Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (c. 1717–1747) and His Defense of Slavery in Context

Abstract The ex-slave-turned-missionary Jacobus Capitein (c. 1717–1747) was one of the first Africans to study at a European university and the first to be ordained as a Protestant minister. Capitein is particularly known for his 1742 Leiden University dissertation, which defended slavery as compatible with Christian liberty. This has given rise to the question of whether Capitein should be considered an “Uncle Tom” who merely wrote what his benefactors wanted to hear. This study contends that when his dissertation is considered in its historical- intellectual context, a more nuanced picture of Capitein emerges. By considering Capitein’s actual arguments, the missional agenda behind his dissertation, and the overwhelming corroboration afforded to his views by early modern Dutch theological and juridical sources, it argues that Capitein was an intellectual in his own right, who through his dissertation sought to pave the way for his return to Africa as a missionary.

Choices and Contexts in India\u2019s Constitutional Founding

‘India’s founding moment’ a moment of breath-taking political imagination and it is one of the great achievements of Madhav Khosla. to unpack important parts of its pre-history and emergence. This article will look at two questions—one about alternatives and the other about contexts. Regarding alternatives, I am interested in the paths not taken and an understanding of possibilities. I try to get a sense of possible alternative futures or modernities that the founding generation pondered, in the best case allowing us to wonder what we can learn from the choices made as well as from the paths rejected. The other question I raise is the question of the intellectual contexts, in which the founding took place. Coming from a non-Indian perspective, I am interested in the entanglements, the contexts and potentially migrating ideas that emerge.

The Routledge Guidebook to Smith's Wealth of Nations

The Routledge Guidebook to Smith's <i>Wealth of Nations</i>

An ‘Islamist’ intellectual in the late Ottoman Empire: Ali Suavi

Contrary to the general tendency in intellectual history, where a past intellectual is usually portrayed as having a coherent thought system with minor deviations, there are various and even contradictory depictions of Ali Suavi. He was a Turkist intellectual and revolutionary, sacrificing himself to stop Abdulhamid II before the latter turned into a ‘despot’, but also an Islamist with political views akin to those of the Muslim modernists, responsible for the later regional instability in the Middle East. This article argues that, instead of a selective reading of his work to fit into one of these portrayals, a better understanding of Ali Suavi’s thought should benefit from intellectual context. It aims at reading his history of the ‘Turks’ intellectual work’ and discussion of sovereignty and ideal government as part of an ongoing conversation with the European intellectual context. This way, his praising of Turkish history and language does not merely point out a nascent Turkism, nor does his utilization of Islamic terminology and history in his formulation of ideal government only signal his Islamism, but rather they prove his conscious engagement with the European intellectual context and attempt at appropriating and translating European ideas for the late Ottoman context.

Interplay of Religion and Philosophy in al-Tawḥīdī’s Political Thought and Practical Ethics

Although modern scholars tend to be sceptical of the role of religion in the formation of ethical and political thought in the Būyid period (334/945–440/1048), this article argues that both philosophy and religion, as envisioned by al-Tawḥīdī and his contemporaries, played an integral role in its creation. The analysis shows that modern concepts such as ‘humanism’ and ‘political philosophy,’ as applied to these authors and their texts, are not felicitous to the social and intellectual contexts in which they were produced. Through analysing al-Tawḥīdī’s ethical and political thought, certain modern assumed dichotomies, including scientific enquiry versus religious teaching, theoretical ethics versus practical ethics, and the social versus the personal, are reconsidered. The article argues that a contextual approach to al-Tawḥīdī and his peers should consider the encyclopaedic system of knowledge that shaped their thought and the interdisciplinary nature of their work where religious, philosophical, and literary elements are intertwined. The article highlights al-Tawḥīdī’s political thought, his active role as an intellectual and his attempt to disseminate knowledge based on two main beliefs: the role of knowledge linked to action in social life and reform, and a solid sense of the religious and moral responsibility of the scholar to offer advice to the leaders of the community. The concepts that he uses, such as maḥabba (love) and ṣadāqa (friendship) with its four foundational components, namely the soul (nafs), intellect (ʿaql), nature (ṭabīʿa), and morals (khulq), addressed social and political challenges in Būyid society and produced alternative moral and intellectual responses to sectarianism, social disintegration and the decline in morality, which were characteristic of the Būyid era.&#x0D; Keywords: Ethical political thought, Būyid, Humanism, Political philosophy, ʿIlm (Knowledge), ʿAmal (action), Ṣadāqa (friendship), al-Tawḥīdī, Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ

Function and Aesthetics of Talmudic Medical Recipes

The present article investigates possible practical and intellectual contexts of talmudic medical recipes, and especially the ones that introduce therapies with a verb, such as “bring XY.” According to my count, there are 47 such recipes disseminated over the Talmud, and most of them likely stem from the same source, a treatise of simple remedies. These recipes often provide multiple therapies, a feature that has caused scholars to doubt their effectiveness. This ineffectiveness would, according to these scholars, already have been realised in late antiquity and therefore caused users to add another try. Contrary to these assumptions, I argue that alternative therapies fulfil a wide range of tasks, from offering therapies more suitable to the season or the patient, to accounting for an aesthetics of variegation.

What’s in a Name? From New Political Science to Critical Political Science

There is no evidence that the founders of the Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS) put much thought into the organization’s name because it was initially founded as an ad hoc caucus and there was no expectation that it would still exist more than a half-century later. However, even in the intellectual context of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the name “New Political Science” was something of an oddity as comparable dissident movements in other social science and humanities disciplines were adopting the terms Radical or Critical to name their new insurgent organizations. After decades of debate, the CNPS finally voted in September 2021 to change its name to the Caucus for a Critical Political Science and to adopt a new mission statement identifying it as “an association of critical scholars committed to making the study of political science relevant to building a more democratic and egalitarian economic, social, and political order.”

Four essays on modern architecture

Virgil Bierbauer is known as perhaps the foremost champion of international modernism in architecture writing in Hungary between the wars. He was editor of the journal Tér és Forma (Space and Form) in the 1920s and 1930, which he used as a platform for disseminating awareness of debates and practices in contemporary architecture not only in Hungary but elsewhere in Europe and North America. Yet his work is almost entirely unknown, primarily because he wrote only in Hungarian. This group of four essays by Bierbauer from Tér és Forma has been translated into English to address this deficit of awareness. The essays are representative of different ideas and positions he took from 1928, the earliest he wrote, to 1946, when the latest of the four was published. The translations are prefaced with an Introduction that puts Bierbauer's work into an historical and intellectual context, as well as outlining some of his key ideas about architecture.

Los estudios generales en Perú : una perspectiva histórica y humanista

This article describes, from a historical perspective, the institutional and legal process of general studies in Peru in the last century, taking into account the political and intellectual contexts. Also, it reflects in favor of the humanistic dimension of general studies and the reason for being of university education.

КОНЦЕПТ «РЕСПУБЛИКА» В ПУБЛИЧНОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ РОССИЙСКОЙ ИМПЕРИИ ПЕРВОЙ ЧЕТВЕРТИ XIX В.

On the basis of the comparative and contextual analysis of publications in the Russian periodicals of the first quarter of the 19th century the article reconstructs the methods of argumentation used in the course of public discussion of ideals and practice of republicanism. Theoretical approaches of the modern history of concepts are used as methodological tools to reveal the ideas of contemporaries about the essence of the republic, the reasons for its emergence and decline, the nature of the relationship between citizens and the state. The intellectual context of Russia’s republican discourse was built on the basis of combination of two space-time prospects — historical experience of the republics of the ancient world and the description of options of the embodiment of the republican idea in France, the modern small states, and “the Republic of the Connected American Areas”. In public space of Russia of the first quarter of the 19th century the republicanism remained an important element of a discourse “about the best form of communal life” which starting point was a statement about the paramount importance of moral qualities of subjects/citizens and the monarch for steady functioning of power institutes. Such interpretation of the republican idea in Russia caused a shift from a question of the institutional embodiment of the republic to reflections about a possibility of combination of republicanism as the ideas of joint action of patriotic citizens, their partnership in “common cause” with historically developed monarchic form of government.

Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev by Glenn Cronin

Reviewed by: Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev by Glenn Cronin Alexandra Medzibrodszky (bio) Glenn Cronin, Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021). 261 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-6018-1. This is a new English-language intellectual biography of Konstantin Leontiev (1831–1891), a thinker and writer whose place in Russian intellectual history remains ambiguous and controversial. Previous attempts to pinpoint his ideas on a larger intellectual map have produced a variety of expressive labels. Nikolai Berdyaev called him a "Russian Nietzsche," Sergei Trubetskoy–a "disappointed Slavophile," Andrzej Walicki–an "integral reactionary," and his disciple Father Iosif Fudel simply referred to him as a "lonely thinker." Cronin correctly notes that the intense interest in Leontiev's thought in postcommunist Russia has not been matched with the same level of attention in the West. This is even more surprising because Vladimir Putin "championed Leontiev as a prophet of the true Russian culture" and "Russia under Putin still gives the West much to puzzle over" (Pp. 7–9). While Leontiev alone will not be enough to understand Russia under [End Page 303] Putin, the book is indeed a timely reevaluation of Leontiev and it is the first comprehensive study of his life and ideas in English since Stephen Lukashevich's psychoanalytical book published back in 1967.1 Leontiev was hardly an "ivory tower" thinker, as underscored by the three milestone events in his life that proved fateful for his intellectual development. In 1849, he started to study medicine at Moscow University. After graduating early, he joined the army as a doctor during the Crimean War. His medical training must have made him particularly predisposed to social organicism in his studies of civilizations. Another important turning point in Leontiev's life came in 1864 when he joined the Asiatic Department of the Russian foreign ministry. He spent the next ten years in various posts across the Ottoman Empire, including Istanbul and Thessaloniki, and was fascinated and impressed by the Ottoman world. This period in his life not only provided him with rich source material for various opinion pieces and literary works but also helped him crystallize his biological-aesthetic guiding principle–"unity in variety"–which strongly influenced his conceptualization of historical process. The third decisive moment came in 1871 when Leontiev fell seriously ill with cholera. In desperation, he prayed to the Virgin Mary for a cure and promised to visit the monastery on Mount Athos, a sacred site of Eastern Orthodoxy, if he recovered. In Leontiev's account, his condition immediately started to improve and he miraculously survived the illness. The existential dread and spiritual crisis had a pronounced impact on his worldview. In his last years he settled near the Optina Pustyn monastery, a spiritual center of Russian Orthodoxy. He died in 1891 in another important monastery, the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, a couple of months after taking monastic vows. The book offers a well-written, easy-to-follow introduction to Leontiev for specialists in Russian history and nonspecialists alike: it is organized chronologically, following the main events in his life while also reconstructing the main intellectual contexts, influences, and conflicts of his time. Writing an intellectual biography is challenging as it requires a delicate intertwining of the protagonist's intellectual development with his personal life and with the larger political, cultural, and historical contexts. Cronin aptly identifies the major turns and defining influences in Leontiev's intellectual biography and discusses his life and ideas. [End Page 304] The book's thirteen chapters are grouped into three parts. The first part focuses on Leontiev's early years as a doctor and diplomat until the time of his near-death experience in 1871. Discussing Leontiev's literary works and criticism penned at that time, Cronin convincingly demonstrates that Leontiev's rejection of the primacy of the moral over the aesthetic made him an instant outsider in the Russian cultural milieu. This position went against the dominant ethically and utilitarian currents of literary criticism propagated by Nikolay Chernyshevsky and Nikolay Dobrolyubov. Literary analysis in the book follows George Ivask's pronouncement that in all Leontiev's "novels we find...

«И пропагандист, и агитатор, и даже рекламист психологии и философии»: Павел Сергеевич Попов о Георгии Ивановиче Челпанове (предисловие к публикации главы «Челпанов» из мемуаров П.С. Попова)

The article updates the memoirs of the famous philosopher, logician, theorist of literature, translator Pavel Sergeevich Popov (1892–1964), dedicated to the pion­eer of philosophical and psychological thought and the founder of a full-fledged Russian psychological school in the first half of the 20th century, Georgy Ivan­ovich Chelpanov (1862–1936). The article precedes the publication of Chapter V “G.I. Chelpanov” of P.S. Popov’s memoirs “Images of the past. Memories from university, gymnasium, and childhood years”. P.S. Popov’s text allows you to re-look at G.I. Chelpanov as a person and philosopher, not only to appreciate his personal qualities as “a propagandist, an agitator, and even an advertiser” of ex­perimental psychology but also to update his philosophical ideas. The author proves that the value of P.S. Popov’s archival materials lies in the discovery of additional research perspectives for understanding both the published heritage of G.I. Chelpanov and the entire historical, cultural, and intellectual context of philosophical discussions of the first half of the 20th century. According to the author, domestic intellectual culture’s experience shows the productivity of the reception of ideas only in connection with the specific contexts of their creation and the fate of their creator. Therefore, understanding the inextricable link between personality and thought is essential for actualizing the philosoph­ical and humanitarian heritage.

НАУЧНАЯ ШКОЛА СОЦИАЛЬНОЙ ПСИХОЛОГИИ Г.М. АНДРЕЕВОЙ: ТРАДИЦИИ И СОВРЕМЕННОСТЬ

Background. Th e article reveals the epistemological sources of the scientifi c school of G.M. Andreeva, which became both the basis and the trigger for the development of social psychology at Moscow University in the second half of the ХХ and early XXI centuries. Objective. Show the relevance and heuristics of the concept of social psychology and social cognition worked out by G.M. Andreeva. Th is concept makes it possible to study the aff ective and cognitive aspects of perception and emotion experience of various vectors of sociocultural changes and crises, including situations of frustration and deprivation of a person’s living space, digitalization and mediatization of society and culture. Methods. Th e methods of historical hermeneutics, historical-genetic and categorical analysis are used, reconstructing the internal logic and the main stages in the development of the scientifi c school of social psychology and social cognition of G.M. Andreeva, her innovative research methodology and categorical apparatus. Results. Th e socio-cultural and intellectual factors of the emergence and creative development of the G.M. Andreeva’s school for more than a half of century are analyzed. Th e epistemological prerequisites for constructing social psychology as a scientifi c discipline included in the real context of the life of society and culture are revealed; the main results of the research of social cognition in conditions of social instability and uncertainty are summarizes and construed. Th e potential of her ideas in the intellectual context of modern psychology is shown. Conclusion. Transdisciplinary and fundamental openness of the methodological gestalt of the new scientifi c school of social psychology created by G.M. Andreeva became the key to its fruitful development in the unpredictably changing space of the modern world. Th e original author’s concept of social cognition, proposed by G.M. Andreeva, unites the disciplinary traditions (paradigms) of psychological and sociological social psychology, which diverged in the twentieth century, and makes it possible to study complex psychological phenomena, patterns and mechanisms of modern society and culture.

П.С. Попов &lt;Георгий Иванович&gt; Челпанов &lt;Часть вторая&gt;

The article updates the memoirs of the famous philosopher, logician, theorist of literature, translator Pavel Sergeevich Popov (1892–1964), dedicated to the pion­eer of philosophical and psychological thought and the founder of a full-fledged Russian psychological school in the first half of the 20th century, Georgy Ivan­ovich Chelpanov (1862–1936). Below publishing second part of Chapter V “G.I. Chelpanov” of P.S. Popov’s memoirs “Images of the past. Memories from university, gymnasium, and childhood years”. P.S. Popov’s text allows you to re-look at G.I. Chelpanov as a person and philosopher, not only to appreciate his personal qualities as “a propagandist, an agitator, and even an advertiser” of ex­perimental psychology but also to update his philosophical ideas. The value of P.S. Popov’s archival materials lies in the discovery of additional research per­spectives for understanding both the published heritage of G.I. Chelpanov and the entire historical, cultural, and intellectual context of philosophical discus­sions of the first half of the 20th century. Domestic intellectual culture’s experi­ence shows the productivity of the reception of ideas only in connection with the specific contexts of their creation and the fate of their creator. Therefore, under­standing the inextricable link between personality and thought is essential for ac­tualizing the philosophical and humanitarian heritage.