Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2018 11 (3)

Authors

Plekhanova, Irina I.

Contact information

Plekhanova, Irina I.: Irkutsk State University 2 Chkalova Str., Irkutsk, 664025, Russia;

Keywords

naive consciousness; primitivism; relativism; postmodernism; reflexive and volitional type of creativity; humanism; anthropology; simpleton; blessed; national poet; «be like children»

Abstract

The task of high culture of our time is to resolve the conflict between the relativistic way of thinking and the life-giving commitments of art. The aesthetics and ideology of postmodernism pretend to correspond to relativistic gnosis, philosophical criticism points to its secondary nature, multiplication of entropy, lack of perspective. The return to the value paradigm of thinking, but with the preservation of the deep reflexivity of the form, has actualized a model of creativity – literary primitivism – that is not canonical in form but is traditional in the system of values. Its spiritual and aesthetic program is the restoration after a deconstruction of a whole and clear world outlook, the image found is a naive consciousness. The comparative method of analysis showed the content of literary polemics that is an attack on naive and naive apology at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries. The value relativism of postmodern conceptualism exploits the mask of non-reflexive simplicity in D.A. Prigov’s poems, the stories of V. Sorokin. The simple-minded willpower consciousness protects the vital meaning: faith, love, patriotism, humanism, compassion. The literature of the high naive shows children’s immediacy, following the commandment “Be like children” (poems and prose of T. Kibirov, historiosophy of V. Sharov), sympathizes with “fools” (prose of V. P’etsukh, O. Zaionchkovskii), depicts blessed ones (verses by M. Stepanova, drama by V. Levanov and L. Petrushevskaia), revives the fairy tale (L. Petrushevskaia, O. Zaionchkovskii). The poetics of the primitive, which is simplicity, clarity, emotional contagion, the original “artlessness” of the form, is represented in parafolkloristic plots, images of heroes-simpletons, sentimental narratives. The gravity to naive is spontaneous; it cannot grow into a direction, but expresses the conscious strategy of authors. Naive declared itself in lyric and satire, prose, essays and drama, which indicates a deliberate polemic with ideas, anthropology and the aesthetics of relativism. Systematicity is manifested in the fact that the naive opposes postmodernism in almost all key points of sociology, the philosophy of creativity and the poetics of its expression. Relativism is opposed to ontological consciousness – not in pretentious, but in organic forms, laughter as a way of cognition, existence, criticism and affirmation of meanings. Anatural anthropology opposes the image of a simpleton in a variety of life, behavioral modifications: the blessed, the fool, the child, the wise skeptic, national poet. Naive is a resource, a justification and an image of modern humanism. The paper reviews the meaning and development of digital humanities giving the ex-amples of work published in various DH areas. The paper discusses what using these technologies means for the humanities, giving recommendations that can be useful across the sector

Pages

396-413

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/70749

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