Essays on the history of European culture of the New Age

The book of the famous political scientist and publicist Vladimir Malinkovich is devoted to complex problems of development of culture in Europe of the new time. It is, first of all, about those contradictory trends in the history of European peoples, which are caused by the complexity of the search for the necessary equilibrium between the processes of the spiritual and material life of a person and society. The heads of the book are devoted to the problems of the Humanism of Renaissance, the cultural chaos of the Baroque era, the contradictions of the path, which was proposed by the enlighteners, the work of Gogol, the European Decadence, the Mascisative Alerts of Anton Chekhov, Finally, Maysky, 1968, Bunta French youth against the consumer society. At the end of the book, the author placed the written quarter of a century ago an article about the nostalgia of the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky in the past spirituality