J.T. Toshchenko. Phantoms of Russian society

Abstract

New book by J.T. Toshchenko, like his previous works, testifies to his interest in new phenomena in the social life of Russian society. In the first part of the book “Phantoms: the foundations of philosophical and sociological analysis”, the author considers such new features of social consciousness and behavior in modern Russia as trauma and antinomy, and reveals the essence of Russian phantoms. The second part of “Phantom Faces” presents a gallery of phantom personalities - demons, mutants, political clowns, daffodils, collaborators, ethno-political xenophobes, defectors and others. The third part deals with “phantom processes”, which found expression in such phenomena as imitation, semibankirism, effective managers, mankurtism, ochlocracy, intelligentsia, and “elite of the second freshness”. The fourth part of the book “Unique Prominences” is devoted to special phantom personalities - Russian heroostrates, epigones and thistles.