Anthropological Crisis of Technogenic Civilization: Parameters and Perspectives of Overcome

Abstract

The anthropological crisis of the technogenic civilization is examined in the arti­cle from the perspective of its ontological foundations. Its ontological aspect is interpreted as a set of special states in the development of complex systems, characterized by the fragmentation of the integrative quality and the increase in entropy, which initiates genesis of new structural hierarchy and order. Thus, the interpretation of the current state of technogenic civilization, proposed by V.S. Styopin, is supplemented in the article by his own synergetic ideas. The so­ciocultural foundations of the crisis stages in the development of modern soci­eties are revealed in the interaction and interconnection of the destructive and constructive components of the crisis in the processes of transformation, first of all, of the fundamental values of the technogenic civilization. The idea is that an­thropological crisis contributes to a radical change of stereotypes of public con­sciousness, the regulatory principles of thinking and action. The crisis also initi­ates the reinterpretation of the meanings of the key cultural universals, thus contributing to the transition to new parameters of the homeostaticstate of the system due to increasing stochastic factors of the external environment. One of them is the divergence of local sociocultural systems, manifested in the growth of ethnic, religious fundamentalism and extremism. Such forms of interaction of civilizations as dialogue, cooperation, partnership can be presented as construc­tive alternatives to these manifestations. Their constitutive basis is the mutual recognition of the originality of local cultural traditions and ethnocultural diver­sity, which will allow to build effective strategies for constructive overcoming the modern anthropological crisis.