Creative Activity in the Cultural and Philosophical Paradigm of Soviet Researchers: M.M. Bakhtin and M.S. Kagan

Abstract

The article conceptualizes the problems of comprehending cultural values through the individuality of the creator and the correlation of creative activity with the circumstances of its implementation. The studying of creative activity by M.M. Bakhtin and M.S. Kagan is shown as relevant and productive. Each philosopher has deeply and originally worked out the methodology of interdisci­plinarity. In the tradition of Bakhtin, the psychological, cultural-anthropological and cultural-philosophical, artistic and aesthetic aspects inherent in the context are highlighted. Based on the integral analysis of Kagan’s works, his ideas that are rel­evant to this day are highlighted: about the possibility of synergetics for studying aesthetic problems and the problems of art; about the philosophical and anthropo­logical understanding of art, in particular, about the methodological justification of ideas about the synthesis of arts and about the personal experience of updating artistic practices. The author emphasizes the innovation and relevance of the philo­sophical and aesthetic problems of the morphology of art, in particular, the issues of the interaction of arts and the creation of models of their intellectual cognition.