HUMANITARIAN EDUCATION IN MODERN RUSSIA: DISAPPEARANCE OF LITERATURE AS A THREAT TO HUMAN BEING
A. A. Antipov
Saint-Petersburg
Keywords: humanitarian education, guarding function of literature, transforming function of literature, the sense-making function of literature, the problematic nature of teaching
Abstract
In the article the author considers the problem of disappearance of literature as an essential component of the modern philosophy of education. The author shows that Russian literature performs the most important function for the formation of the human in the human being as a supernatural being. In the work it is argued that the main objective of educational policy is to resurrect the cult of reading and to comprehend the fact that Russian literature has a direct relationship to the foundations of national life. The author turns to a number of philosophical views, and claims that the disappearance of literature makes the philosophy and humanitarian knowledge barren and meaningless.
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