A historiography of the culture: A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky - P.M. Bitsilli - A.F. Losev - D.S. Likhachev

Abstract

It is promising to construct the historiography of cultural studies in Russia not chronologically but according to the principle of problematisation which reveals correlations at the ideological, methodological and theoretical levels. Evidently, in the study of culture it is possible to find out certain locations, families, groups of personalities, which are intersecting and form the common theoretical and philosophical area. But even in the close practices of research the historians of science come across different paradigms of study of culture. This is exactly all those types of paradigms (or styles of humanitarian cognition) - comprehended in a broadest possible sense - what are examined by the author of this article by the example of A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky (epistemological approach), P.M. Bitsilli (historical approach), A.F. Losev (philosophical approach), and D.S. Likhachev (cultural approach as such).