Memory and oblivion of ruins
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Memory and oblivion of ruins
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Ruins have accompanied man throughout his history, but he did not always notice them: those who were not interested in the past, artlessly dismantled the remains of old buildings to build new ones. The ruins remained in such neglect for a very long time, until man came to the conclusion that they, being carriers of historical and cultural information, are an important part of his national identity.
In his book, Vladislav Degtyarev suggests using ruins as a philosophical tool, a kind of magic glasses that allow us to more clearly and distinctly consider some of the mental attitudes and stereotypes of European culture of the New Age. Ruins always end up in the gap, always fall out of classifications, but that is precisely why they can help us analyze the differences between the past and the present, the natural and the cultural, the genuine and the fake, the whole and the fragmentary, the correct and the abnormal.
Vladislav Degtyarev is a culturologist and art historian, senior researcher at the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.
In his book, Vladislav Degtyarev suggests using ruins as a philosophical tool, a kind of magic glasses that allow us to more clearly and distinctly consider some of the mental attitudes and stereotypes of European culture of the New Age. Ruins always end up in the gap, always fall out of classifications, but that is precisely why they can help us analyze the differences between the past and the present, the natural and the cultural, the genuine and the fake, the whole and the fragmentary, the correct and the abnormal.
Vladislav Degtyarev is a culturologist and art historian, senior researcher at the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.
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