Lyusyy A.P., Nilogov A.S. Textological Concept of Russian Culture (Conversation of Aleksey Nilogov with Alexander Lyusiy)

Abstract: The conversation with Alexander Lyusiy has been recorded within the framework of the editorial project 'Contemporary Russian Philosophy' and devoted to the modern trends in Russian philosophy and cultural studies. The culture expert Alexander Lyusiy offers his own research methodology - textological concept of Russian culture or the theory of local texts/supertexts. The aim of the concept is to create an important way of socio-cultural personality and society identification at the modern stage of Russia's history, i.e. to arrange for the 'search of models to structure the reality and creation of new entrances into this reality, which would allow to solve important tasks for human and society'. In his conversation Nilogov has used the methods of textological analysis offered by Lyusiy as well as the hermeutical approach allowing to interpet the current situation in Russian philosophy and cultural studies. Alexander Lyusiy proves his textological concept of Russian culture based on the examples of Crimean, Moscow, Siberian, Altai, Ural, Volzhsk, Samara and other regional supertexts. Thus, a text becomes a synonym of 'readability' of this or that cultural environment. Gnoseological (cognitive) metaphor of a text/supertext allows to analyze the human habitat as the sign-oriented sybmolic reality called semiosis, or, more properly, semiocenosis. 

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