Cultural-civilization research: their role and value in the global world
The author analyzes the characteristic features of the global world and identifies the best ways to study it. It is argued that the modern contradictions are based on cultural isolation and uneven civilizational development of individual countries and peoples. It is also noted that cultural and civilizational approaches to the description of the historical process, which were widespread in the previous centuries, have now lost their heuristic value. For the most adequate reflection of the world community and its structural elements in the conditions of modern globalization it is offered to use a new synthetic category “cultural and civilizational system”. The prospects for world development are closely linked to the rethinking of existing values and the enhancement of the level of civilization of the world community.