140х215 (60х90/16), hard cover, 152 pp., 2007
ISBN5-86793-503-5

“Unpredictability of the society”, “loss of guiding lines”, “crisis of science on humans”, “end of the intellectuals”, “decay of the humanitarian society”… This is how the leading Russian and French researchers, the characters of the book, describe the modern intellectual situation in Russia and France. Science on society has lost its ability to analyze the present and to predict the future. The numbness of the intellectuals is caused by the “language strike”. The basic notions of the social science, such as “reality” and “objectiveness”, “democracy” and “nation”, are rapidly losing their familiar sense. The growing crisis of the scientific rationality is threatening not only the identity of the intellectuals. It challenges the basics of our perception of the world. What are the reasons of the intellectual revolution which is happening in front of our very eyes? How is it connected with the change of time perception in the European culture which has started in the 20th century? These are the main issues discussed in the book.

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