Strategic Guidelines for Development of Humanitarian Expert Community

Abstract

The article considers the strategic objectives for the development of humanitarian expert community in Russia. The author believes that humanitarian expert community, unfortunately, has not begun to implement the key tasks associated with the production and distribution of meanings, which were successfully solved firstly by Russian and later by Soviet intelligentsia. Scholar as the bearer of culture and of the system of scientifically grounded knowledge of man is not wanted in his own country. As a consequence, we have lost not only a cultural environment, but also intellectuals, concerned mainly with a qualified discussion of the eternal questions of human existence. The overcoming the semantic and cultural regression, in our opinion, is directly related to the eradication of the complexes of provincialism, strategic inferiority and a belated apprenticeship. The self-organization of intelligent community is also badly needed. The key idea of this article is that Russia needs fully-fledged, viable and morally wealthy cognitariat able to present a bewildered society a higher sense and to take responsibility for change.