Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (4)

Authors

Koptseva, Natalia P.

Contact information

Koptseva, Natalia P.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0003-3910-7991

Keywords

The Modern; encyclopedia; cultural practices; cultural identity; cultural memory

Abstract

The article presents the results of the study of the encyclopedia in the context of the practices of the modernist project. Modernism is understood as an era that is critical of the realities of traditional society and purposefully creates several forms of new cultural practices, the implementation of which creates, preserves, reproduces and broadcasts the foundations of the socio-cultural, economic, political and technological system of modernism. The encyclopedia is considered as one of the basic practices of modernism, which consolidates the standards of scientific knowledge, technology, artistic discoveries, crafts and other forms of collective intellectual activity. It is argued that the creation of encyclopedias is the most important element in the process of nation formation, the development of national self-awareness of collective subjects, the representation of the national image of intellectual, artistic, technological activity both inside the national community and outside. Thus, encyclopedias constantly participate in the formation of a single national-cultural space of the nation and simultaneously introduce this nation into the relevant circles of world culture. Encyclopedias of the modern period of Russian cultural history also represent the standards of its cultural memory and functionally contribute to the formation of a single cultural space of Russia as a strategic goal of its current cultural policy

Pages

654–663

EDN

UBHWJN

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/155098

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