Passion in Russia. Meanings of Russian history and culture today

The new book of Professor E. A. Kostin includes the works of recent years. Along with articles dedicated to the poorly studied issues of the mythology of Russian culture, its connections with antiquity, the origin of art, the analysis of the cultural and archaic features of the world M. A. Sholokhov, the famous scientist addresses the genre of historiosophical essays, reflects on the fate and prospects of Russia in the realities of today. The book “Historical Journalism "that opens the book explores the civilizational break in world history, carried out by Russia in 2022. E. A. Kostin, author of fundamental labor "West and Russia. Phenomenology and the meaning of enmity "(St. Petersburg:" Aleteya ", 2021), searches and finds confirmation of his theoretical projections and practical forecasts made in the indicated work, but already based on the current historical situation. And also formulates his ideas about the main lines of development of Russia, the West and human civilization as a whole for the near future. The main emphasis is on the "anthropological breakdown" of the subject of modern culture, which has gone beyond both Christianity and secular humanism. It is this circumstance, in his opinion, that is the main platform for the confrontation of Western and Russian civilizations. The main theme of the book of the famous Slavist and the culturologist remains the same - the fate of Russia as a separate civilization in the global prospects of rapidly changing humanity