Crisis of worldview

Neklessa A.I.,

Chairman of the Commission on the social and cultural globalization; member of the Bureau of the Scientific Council “History of World Culture” at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Laboratory for Geo-economic Analysis, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, neklessa@intelros.ru

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Rubric: Theme of the issue: Political world in the epoch of changes

For citation:

Neklessa A.I. Crisis of worldview . – Polis. Political Studies. 2013. No. 3

Abstract

The author proposes radical recomprehension of the historical and anthropological situation in people’s worldview, proposes rereading of the said situation and apprehension of the final conclusion. So what is taking place in the article is revision of primordial foundations: alterations in the axiomatics of knowledge and of action, radical correction of the codes of consciousness and change of the world arrangement orienting points that used to determine the movement of civilization. The author offers original interpretation of such notions as knowledge and understanding.

Keywords

worldview; knowledge; consciousness; thinking; mentality; education; science; university; academy; humanism.