Philosophy as a Model of Dialogue: The Concept "Death of Father" in the Connotations of the Contemporary Humanities

The author of the article solves the problem of substantiating the repressive character of the neoliberal sociocultural state of the subject in global multicultural capitalism and forming a dialogical model of philosophy as a positive alternative to alienation and identity crisis. The state of the crisis is designated in the framework of the postmodern discourse as "emptiness", "gaping", "rhizome". The main important methodological guidelines for the study were: Alain Badiou's school of psychic and political economy, the Ljubljana school of post-Lacan analysis of the relationship between the real and the symbolic (Slavoj Zizek, Mladen Dolar), Jean Baudrillard's and Benno Hubner's social phenomenology and aesthetics. The author analyzes the contemporary economic, psychoanalytic and aesthetic materials employing the methods of structural psychoanalysis, semiotic analysis, hermeneutic interpretation and philosophical comparative studies. She structures the symbolic order of the hegemony of globalism as a complex formation of three elements: economic (universal market), mental ("Death of Father", or loss of a vertical figure of control and signification), and sensual-aesthetic (transgression of desire, translation of desire into the automatic regime of a "machine", forced aesthetics, pleasure from the Other, etc.). "Death of Father" is defined as a neoliberal crisis of tradition, leading to a new totalitarianism within the framework of globalism due to voluntary self-censorship and digital control. In the course of the analysis of the relationship between the "Father" (tradition) and the "Son" (subject) as figures to which the concepts of "donor" and "recipient" correspond in semiotics, the author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to return to the "Father" at a new dialectical turn based on the synthesis of traditionalism (diversity) and universalism (unity). The interaction between the subject and tradition is seen as a process of deliberate fusion of lacks in the philosophy of dialogue. Dialogue appears as the identification of a subject with a symptom (community with the mortality of the Other) outside the chain of signifiers. The tradition presented in the concept "Return of Father" is seen as a lack, symptom, solidarity ("Son") experienced individually as a poetic myth and critically rethought collectively as a principle of social community. Philosophy as a dialogue is a worldview context within which ethical and civilizational principles are synthesized on the basis of two procedures of truth: the phenomenological shift of attention from an object to consciousness and the subjective articulation of values in philosophical hermeneutics.

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