The pendulum of understanding of creation

The article «The pendulum of understanding of creation» touches the ontologi-metodological basis of the analysis of the world, put forward by Descartes and Kant. With this purpose the phenomenon of constructivizm is examined that can serve as epistemological, artistic and aesthetic reception (constructivizm) and is correlated with other concepts, including the concept of «madeness» that have received a resonance in the artistic quests of Russian writers and painters of the early twentieth century (B.M. Eichenbaum, V.B. Shklovski, P.A. Philonov). It is shown that the concept of «madeness», used by Russian craftsmen was intended to demonstrate the wholeness of the organic vision of the world as opposed to its mechanistic interpretation. The confrontation of the organic and the mechanistic perception of the world, reflected in the creation of artistic images had their supporters. The semantic meaning of 'madeness' was analyzed on specific examples which used by homeland authors as opposed to the concept of «done» as the manifestation of subject-practical activities of the people who has been removed from the spiritual-holistic vision of the world. The resonances of the positivist style of thinking were marked and served the creation of article by R. Kipling «The man who was» praising the engineering and technical activities of people, as opposed to the spiritual meaning which we find in Russian artistic surroundings. It is shown that a natural extension of the fledgling pragmatism was the formation in Russia bravura aesthetics of the 30-ies, which had, however, alternative positions. It is provided in my work that the origins of the development of the mechanistic vision of the world as a pan-European phenomenon, dating back to the worldviews of the New time, which were the basis of the formation of Western civilization. The article touches the historical-philosophical aspect for research of the ponderously concepts for historical knowledge and theoretical positions. In this regard, the position of J. Vico was reviewed, who admitted as a criterion of the truth of the history reliance on «material created» artifacts, and was continued in the theoretical and methodological researches of the twentieth century. In particular it is the position of F. Boas and B. Malinowski.

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