Georgy Fedotov: a Person in the World of Culture

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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.25How to use a DOI?

Keywords

philosophy of culture; cultural dimension of the person; personalism; medieval thought; freedom in culture

Abstract

Having travelled the difficult path of internal intellectual development and gone through fascination with social democratic ideas, like many other Russian thinkers of the early 20thcentury, after overcoming the nihilism of revolutionary ideology, Georgy Fedotov gained a balanced position of a historian and a philosopher of culture. To the thinker, a person is always man in the world of culture, which does not necessarily imply only the culture of his epoch. The cultural dimension of the person is more profound and complex than any direct influences and historical circumstances within whose borders the person exists. The Russian thinker believes that the person is revealed and comprehended only in the history of culture in the most intimate moments of fate (such as Abelard's tragic love) and in the generally significant results of creative activity.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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