Interpretations of the Phenomenon of Fire in the History of Culture and Philosophy: from Figurative Representations to Conceptual Constructions
The article presents a variety of interpretations of fire carried out in various spheres of spiritual culture-mythology, religion, science, philosophy. It is proved that this variety is connected with the difference in the means of interpretation and can be represented as located between the poles of the «poem and theorem» (G. Bashlyar). The author also suggests that understanding the phenomenon of fire as a philosophical and cultural universal allows us to connect culture and nature, society and linguistic reality, man and the transcendent world, creating different pictures of the world as a unity, including in the search for answers to eternal philosophical questions. And also that various interpretations of the phenomenon of fire can be used as a basis for understanding culture and typologizing cultures.