From rational egoism to absolute being: historical logic of cultural change paradigm
In the article on the example of the evolution of French drama from the classicism of the 17th century to romanticism the stages of the formation of the educational “idea of man”, its subsequent crisis and transformation into the doctrine of the absolute are traced. The comedies by Molière, then by Regnard and Lesage ridiculed ambitious upstarts, trying to change their class status. The comedies by Marivaux convincingly showed that “natural feeling”, identical to the class status, strengthens the society structure. However, Diderot “family drama” revealed a conflict between the vital interests of “”little man” and ignoring him conservative social attitudes. The educational theory of properly understood interest was criticized by the romantic doctrine of the absolute fullness of life. The charm of the absolute radically transformed an inner man, socially humiliated by the bourgeois society man, in full dignity and greatness of the hero of V. Hugo romantic dramas.