Deception as a Sociocultural Code. Fiction and Fairy Tale
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5148-2025-2-110-118
Abstract
Aim. Assessment of the fiction as a kind of deception, taken in its negative connotations and as a phenomenon of opposition to truth as a value universality of social life.
Methodology. The article presents a socio-philosophical analysis of deception in the series of relevant concepts (truth, lie, fiction, trickster) and as constants of social relations. Using phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches, it is shown that fiction as one of the practices of deception, on its own scale, is found in the society of mass culture.
Results. The study of the mechanisms of fiction as a form of deception has shown that this practice is a constant of social and interpersonal relations.
Research implications. The theoretical and practical significance of the work consists in the problematization and conceptualization of fiction as a practice of deception, which is important for understanding the transformation of social relations under the conditions of modern challenges.
About the Authors
V. V. Pikhnovsky
Tver State Technical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vadim V. Pikhnovsky – Postgraduate Student, Department of Psychology, History and Philosophy
Tver
E. A. Yevstifeeva
Tver State Technical University; Tver State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena A. Yevstifeeva – Dr. Sci. (Philosophy), Prof., Head of the Department of Psychology, History and Philosophy; Head of the Department, Department of Philosophy and Psychology with courses in Bioethics and History of the Fatherland
Tver
D. D. Grigoryeva
Tver State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Darya D. Grigoryeva – Cand. Sci. (Philosophy), Assoc. Prof., Department of Philosophy and Psychology with courses in Bioethics and History of the Fatherland
Tver
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