The second beginning. In art and sociocultural history. Smirnov I.P.

Unlike animals, a person experiences not only biological, but also spiritual birth. This transition from the first beginning to the second, he extends to all areas of his work. The little -studied problem of the second beginning in the history of socioculture is covered in the book of Professor I.P. Smirnov at different angles of vision. In the introductory part of the work, the second genesis is considered as one of the most important foundations of human activity. In the following sections, the author proceeds to the study of the second beginning on a particular historical and cinematic material, in particular, this includes the work of Dostoevsky and Nabokov, as well as the fate of the historical avant-garde. The book is completed by chapters in which the situation traumatic for Russian socioculture and attempts to withdraw from them, laying national traditions are traced.

Igor Pavlovich Smirnov - philosopher and culturologist, theorist and historian of literature.