THE SOUL OF THE RUSSIAN CULTURE IN THE “SILVER AGE”

• Main Author: L. P. Tipikina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2015-06-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: soul, culture, soul of culture, soul of the russian culture, ‘silver age’, philosophy, poetry, contradictions, christian, pagan, eternal, fleeting, divine, human, harmonious, destructive
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/1835
• ISSN: 2078-8975; 2078-8983

The paper the uniqueness of the soul of the Russian culture at the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries. The author analyses of the definition of ‘soul’, ‘soul culture’, ‘the soul of the Russian culture’ and discusses the features of the soul of the Russian culture allocated in the philosophical works of O. Spengler, N. Berdyaev, I. Ilyin; and in poetic texts by S. Esenin, V. Brusov, A. Block, N. Gumilev, M. Voloshin, B. Pasternak, M. Tsvetaeva, O. Mandelstam, F. Sologub, V. Nabokov, A. Akhmatova, K. Balmont. The soul of the Russian culture of the Silver Age is layered, contradictory, megaventory, ambiguous. It is characterized as Christian humility and pagan riot; as unconditional focus on the future and the desire not to lose touch with the ‘roots’; the pursuit of the eternal, authentic, and dissolution in a fleeting, illusory; as a heightened feeling of injustice and the loss of moral values; as the quest for universal harmony and desire for natural degradation.