Davydov A.P. Socio-cultural split in modern Russia: in search of the middle. Personality. Culture. Society. 2021. Volume XXIII. Issue 1-2 (No. 109-110). PP. 64-75.

Abstract

The problematic of the article is located in the area that can be called “projectsociology”. Society, solving problems that are not recorded in the dualism of a historically established culture and refusing to think in opposite absolutes, in the intersubjective semantic spaceforms the idea of intersubjective “middles” as new integrators aimed at overcoming the threat of socio-cultural split in society. Suggested for consideration: 1) “Middle-for” M.M. Bakhtina /V.A. Lektorsky, aimed at serving the Other in the system “I-Other”. This is serving the imperativeof joint activity through finding a common point of view on the compatibility that is constructed byboth. 2) “Mid-from” J.-P. Sartre / R.S. Greenberg, which in the system “I-Other” protects theindependence of opposites from each other in the act of mutual penetration, through a social contract protecting the common cause from usurpation of one of the parties, preventing the formation ofsyncresis “power--property”. 3) “The middle as another being-with” M. Scheler / Yu.M. Reznik,which, through dialogue and free choice, overcoming historically formed factors of schism, establishes in the system “I-Other” a certain elite meta-anthropological ideal of the Other being, raising a unifying reflection of the meaning of a new level is a different level. The first two “middles”form the methodological identity “for/from” as a dialogical instrument of struggle both for a person-reformer and a changing society with the threat of a split in the dynamic systems “subject-object”, “subject-subject”. The third middle is one of the regional elite middle. At the same time,it carries in itself universality, since it offers two most important general civilizational criteria forsurvival: 1) the flight of people from the stereotypes of a historically established culture into theOther (into the construction of a new culture), if the accumulated culture is unable to protect themfrom the threat of an internal split and provide them the highest level of spiritual development,and 2) entering the space of “being possible” through the formation of the project of the transpersonal Other, the value of which is measured by death, as an avant-garde method of reproduction,culturally non-spiritual and rational-non-social.