Lomonosov. Myth as the foundation of thinking

The book presents a study of the main features of the thinking of the Russian XVIII century. The focus is the analysis of the foundations of creativity Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov. According to the author, the thinking of the first Russian academician was formed under the influence of two circumstances. The education obtained in Western Europe has determined the content of thinking, the main scientific issues. Created by Peter the Great State Myth became the form of thinking of Lomonosov, thereby predetermining the exceptional role of the thinker in the intellectual fate of Russia as the initiator of the "Enlightened MiF". The latter became the basis of the general principles of the organization of the scientific, pedagogical and artistic and aesthetic areas of the activities of Russians the Epoch of Enlightenment and the beginning of the 19th century