Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article reveals the problem of “catching up” with the model of self-awareness and delayed worldview reflection in connection with the historioso- phical concept of pseudomorphosis proposed by Oswald Spengler. The problem is investigated in the optics of a new methodology of tradition-civilization as an indissoluble sociocultural complex. The article shows that the Russian philosophical and social thought proposed two large-scale programs to overcome the pseudomorphological type of development: Pochvennichestvo in the 19th century and Eurasianism in the 20th century. The creation of such programs represented a kind of jerks provoked by an identity crisis. Pochvennichestvo has advanced from its environment and defended the original theory of civilizations (cultural and historical types) of Nikolai Danilevsky. This program and N. Danilevsky's system were a reaction to Russia's defeat in the Crimean War and the collapse of the illusions of Eurocentrism and Russia's organic entry into the family of European states. In turn, Eurasianism was formed as a worldview response to the cascade of revolutions of the early 20th century and the continuation of a radical Western pseudomorphosis at a different level. The proposed two programs were not only reactive, but also proactive: they comprehended the historical traumas experienced by Russia, and at the same time forecasts and scenarios of the future were built, and an impulse was given to a comprehensive scientific study of Russia as a civilization.
Author: V. V. Averianov
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407417272