Counterpoints of Humanism: Renaissance and Soviet Culture

Abstract

The development of the humanistic tendencies are possible only in the case of formation of the individual as the subject of culture and history, and certainly through the practice of the transformation of social relations. The promotion of the ideals of humanism, as shown by the practice of the Renaissance and the USSR, is only possible in the case of formation of the individual as the subject of culture - in the first case and the subject of history and culture - in the second. In addition, implementation humanistic ideals are possible only through a dialectical overcoming of the dominant forces of alienation. These laws identified common features and contradictions of the Renaissance and Soviet culture, despite the differences in their historical genesis. If the Renaissance through the ideals of humanism created / conceived image of the New man, the historical and cultural practices of the Soviet project have already formed their own ontological imperative as the principle of creative transformation of social reality and himself. This is the essence of the activity humanism. The elimination of the subjective principle of the individual in the field of social transformations objectively leads to the extinction of the humanistic content of culture, and thus to strengthen the power of alienation. The modern development of culture just confirms it.