THE PROBLEM OF CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION IN S.N. BULGAKOV'S LAST PAPERS

Abstract

This paper is devoted to extremely compli-cated evolution of ideological and philosophical views of the great Russian philosopher S.N. Bulgakov. The inter-action of such phenomena and categories as 'culture' and 'civilization' was the central issue of his works. In spite of the fact that there are plenty of interpretations of these categories in different theories the problem still holds up-to-date significance. The author focuses on the core of Bulgakov's views which states that civilization is no more than a "tool" for realizing human's creative abilities, whereas more complicated and more important social and political circumstances should be trusted in culture. The author of the paper analyzed many sides of the categories "culture" and "creation" developed in Bulgakov's works, including economic activity, the evo-lution of his views on art and etc., because at the end of his life Bulgakov returned to religion and revised practi-cally all his ideas of the world as such.