The postmodern society in the paradigm of the "new middle ages": conceptualization
This article examines the phenomenon of the activation of the concept “New Middle Ages” in the modern Western and Russian humanitarian science, journalism. Actual neome-dieval concepts are analyzed: S. Bauman, U. Beck, U. Eko, A. Neklessa, etc. The adequacy of the application of this concept for fixation of ongoing social changes and key characteristics of the postmodernity is analyz. Come to light in the modern society both consonant features to classical Middle Ages and specific «neomedieval» features. Conclusions are drawn that limit development of the world market became the prerequisite of an institutionalization of the neomedieval project in the present became and, in the conditions of globalization, retraction in the specific post-modern reality of all world community. Locates that one of signs of implementation of the neosredneveky social project is the phenomenon of a modern pan-mythologization of reality.