Советская академическая философия и философские искания Л.М. Леонова на рубеже 1970‒80-х гг.

Abstract

The article observes the late period of the oeuvre of L. Leonov, the writer-thinker, in the historic and philosophical context of the Soviet academic philosophy (based on publications of “Voprosy Filosofii” journal). This period is located within ap­proximate chronological frames on the threshold of 1970‒1980s. The author com­prehends the articles having the following subject: an examination of a person as a complex problem in the context of contemporary global problems (so-called “philosophy of global problems” after I. Frolov). The natural scientific grounds of the Soviet philosophical think are emphasized. It is shown that academic philo­sophy during the above-mentioned period was characterized by scientific optimism regarding human perspectives, scientific convergence, and building of so-called “new (real) humanism”. The transition from the context of academic philosophy to Leonov's oeuvre was realized in this work via the expansion of historic and cul­tural context due to the representation of several events of the literary process in 1970‒1980s. Human consideration in the coordinates of his way of life and his­tory, not in the context of global problems, was typical for this literary process. The second part of the article is devoted to the analysis of Leonid Leonov’s literary works and his social and political essays in 1970‒1980s. It can be concluded that Leonid Leonov dared to display in his oeuvre in the Soviet conditions possibilities of religious and philosophical as well as theological (even in its heretic mode) comprehension of the total human history and the “human project” itself.