The New Renaissance of V. Bibikhin in the context of approaches to the study of modern culture

Abstract

Throughout the 20^th century, the professional scientific community has been steadily paying attention to the problem of the crisis of the humanistic tradition. Socioeconomic transformations, in turn, lead to a shift in the scientific paradigm – the need to reconsider the possibilities and boundaries of knowledge, as well as the principles and approaches to research. An interdisciplinary approach, as one of the ways to solve the problem of differentiation of knowledge, is now considered as a methodological guideline. One of the most relevant interdisciplinary fields today is the study of posthumanism. Thus, there is a need to rethink and revise our attitude to classical humanism. Within the philosophical system of Vladimir Veniaminovich Bibikhin in the 1990s, the concept of the “New Renaissance” emerged, which defines the Renaissance as an event that is repeated many times in the history of culture, the fascination with which becomes a key aspect of the Renaissance impulse – the re-actualization of the Renaissance of “ours” and “new”. The central concept of the Renaissance – humanism, is purified by V.V. Bibikhin from historiographical layers, which allows us to see in it not a sign, but a meaning. Within the framework of the article, it is supposed to compare the concept of V.V. Bibikhin with the ideas of posthumanism in the 21^st century. We will follow an interdisciplinary approach, apply the methods of comparative analysis, synthesis, discourse analysis.