The image of a city through the prism of cultural-philosophical concept introduced by Oswald Spengler.
| dc.contributor.author | Stepanova, A.A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kalinichenko, V.V. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-09T12:36:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-04-09T12:36:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description | Many scholars believe that a city is an integral part of such a paradigm as nature – history – culture. Thus, Oswald Spengler sees a culture as a single living organism with different stages of development – birth, growth, aging and dying – and connects its nature with the peculiarities of the landscape on the grounds of which any culture appears and develops. The landscape, being a natural space, is one of the basic elements contributing to the formation of a city which is a center of any culture and history development [1]. The philosopher considers that a city stems from the landscape, though unique urban consciousness is formed earlier than the process of city formation is completed. Landscape plays a pivotal role in the formation of human consciousness, as nature and the environment are the first elements to be perceived and learned by a human. In this regard it is necessary to apply to Spengler’s concept of nature according to which two types of nature can be distinguished. The first is nature unknown, terrifying, which is associated with the image of the Ancient World and considered to be a starting point of the becoming. The second is nature known, is associated with the image of the Modern Age and considered to be the end result of the becoming that is the being. The first type of the nature is a core of the artistic worldview (“idea” of a culture, according to Spengler); the second one is a core of the scientific worldview (“bone” of the culture). The first is the myth, the second is the fact [1, p. 225]. Since Spengler believes that the history is the becoming and nature is the being, the history is the myth. Thus, we have two types of world perception such as “world-as-history” and “world-as-nature”. In other words, history is a kind of creativity which is a sensory perception of the world in the process of its becoming; nature, in its turn, is a kind of science presenting the systemic perception of the world as the being. “Systemic abstract mind, different from the sensory, is the latest, narrow and transient phenomenon which is peculiar to the cultures being more developed. It is connected with the cities where the life of culture is more and more condensed” [1, p. 259]. Thus, Spengler connects the formation of a city with the second type of nature, but this idea is not so precise, as we believe that the city is formed on the basis of both types of nature. City formation background is predetermined by the formation of human world perception, which is already city-oriented, and it happens when the nature is perceived for the first time (the first type of nature, according to Spengler), then is developed in terms of a “matured culture” (the second type of nature). | uk_UA |
| dc.description.abstract | The article studies the problem of city formation as a cultural phenomenon in the concept introduced by Oswald Spengler. We analyze how the urban consciousness, as a free spirit which is transubstantial in art, was formed. | uk_UA |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.32342/2523-4463-2017-0-14-23-29 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.duan.edu.ua/handle/123456789/2982 | |
| dc.language.iso | other | uk_UA |
| dc.publisher | Університет імені Альфреда Нобеля | uk_UA |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2;(14) | |
| dc.subject | city, landscape, space, urban consciousness, free spirit, art, literature. | uk_UA |
| dc.title | The image of a city through the prism of cultural-philosophical concept introduced by Oswald Spengler. | uk_UA |
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