Dukes of the Republic in the era of translations. Humanities and the revolution of concepts

"Unpredictability of society", "Loss of landmarks", "crisis of sciences about a person", "end of intellectuals", "disintegration of the humanitarian community", - so describe the modern intellectual situation in Russia and in France leading Russian and French researchers are the heroes of this book. Society science has lost the ability to analyze the present and predict the future. Lack of intellectuals caused by "Language strike": basic concepts of social sciences, such as "reality" and "objectivity", "democracy" and "nation", rapidly lose their usual meaning. The growing crisis of scientific rationality threatens not only the identity of intellectuals. He poses the basis of the foundations of our ideas about the world. What are the causes of the intellectual revolution on our eyes? How is it related to a change in the perception of time in the European culture that began in the twentieth century? - These are the main problems discussed in this book