Email this article Semantics of absurdity on the metaphysical clock of dystopia: Russian intentions
- Authors: Malyshev V.B.1
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Affiliations:
- Samara State Technical University
- Issue: Vol 22, No 3 (2022)
- Pages: 64-67
- Section: Philosophical sciences
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2410-3764/article/view/108750
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.55531/2072-2354.2022.22.3.64-67
- ID: 108750
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The problem of absurdity is a multidimensional problem of philosophical anthropology, it raises the question of the postmodern man, about the existence of man in the world of dystopia. Through the semantics of absurdity, it becomes possible to consider the problems of aesthetic, epistemological, cultural properties in the context of posing a fundamental question about a person, about a person in principle.
Aim – to correlate the semantics of absurdity and the concept of a metaphysical clock. Absurdity is regarded as the destruction of the ideal architectonics of the metaphysical clock of dystopia. The texts of dystopian novels by Evgeny Zamyatin, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury are compared with texts of the Russian culture by Fedor Dostoevsky, Nikolay Gogol. The dystopias are considered as a symbolic "background" of human existence as a "ridiculous being". It is on the symbolic clock of dystopia, those ridiculous human qualities, which an imaginary society wants to abandon, seem to be the most valuable.
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V. B. Malyshev
Samara State Technical University
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Email: vlmaly@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3248-7920
PhD, Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Social-Humanitarian Sciences
Russian Federation, SamaraReferences
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