Soloviev, E. Yu. Historical and Philosophical Journalism (Features and Requirements)

Abstract: This article is an extended version of the speech made at the seminar ‘History of Philosophy: Heritage and Project’ (arranged by the division of History of Western Philosophy at Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences on April 22, 2014). The speech was associated with the fact that the speaker celebrated his 80th jubilee and therefore was based on the analysis of the speaker’s creative experience. In this article the author tells about the evolution of Russian historical and philosophical journalism at the last third of the XXth century. The author also emphasizes the multiple meanings o the term ‘modern age’, discusses the problem of topical historical analogies and explains the paradox ‘the past interprets us’. In his research article the author uses general scientific methods. He discusses and uses methods of biographical analysis, psychological creativity and theatrical hermeneutics. He also views the factor of the decisiveness of historical and philosophical journalism and its conceptual dramatic theory describing the role of logical formula of rhetoric. For the first time in scientific literature the author introduces and analyzes the term ‘reconstructive improvisation’ as a special type of investigative behavior. The author describes the similarity between certain types of historical and philosophical research with interpretations of theatrical script writers and stage directors.

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