DIALOGISM AND SYMBOLISM IN MODERN CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE: TO THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF PROFESSOR A.I. PIGALEV
The article presents an overview of the scholar activities of Professor Alexander Ivanovich Pigalev. The main stages of the evolution of his philosophical views are shown, a brief description of the main works - monographs “Philosophical nihilism and the crisis of culture”, “Culture as totality: (Methodological aspects)”, “The spectral reality of culture: (The fetishism and the apparencyof an invisibility)”, “Postmodern Apocalypticism” is given. The results of A.I. Pigalev’s work on the translation and popularization of the ideas of the German- American philosopher-dialogist Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy are demonstrated. The innovative nature of the “sociology of the symbol” - an approach to the analysis of cultural categories (such as Being, God, Nature, Spirit), implemented by A.I. Pigalev in articles published in the two-volume encyclopedia “Cultural Studies” and in the cultural philosophical dilogy, consisting of monographs “Culture as integrity” and “The spectral reality of culture”, is particularly emphasized. At the end, a list of the most important scholar works of A.I. Pigalev is given.