Cryptography of Philosophical Text and the Problem of “Reading Philosophy”
The article is devoted to the discussion of the actual problem of the modern philosophical discourse - cryptography of the philosophical text. The idea is postulated that both classical and modern philosophical texts are hermetic, that is closed for understanding and therefore require decoding and interpretation. The approaches to the cryptography of the philosophical text on the part of modern Russian analysts are analysed, a preliminary conclusion is made about the insufficiency of the available analytical procedures for understanding the nature of the philosophical text. As an alternative, the concept of “reading philosophy” is proposed by V. Bibikhin who, relying on the ontological approach to language, tells about the event philosophy. Reading philosophy is the birth of an event of philosophical thought, and first of all, and only then a specific philosophical text, behind which there is a certain idea. According to the author, this approach to understanding the nature of the philosophical text can significantly expand the analytical arsenal of modern philosophical discourse. It is concluded that the future of philosophy is largely determined by the correctness of cryptographic interpretation of the previous tradition and the ability of modern philosophers to read philosophy as an event of thought.