Present Past

Abstract

The article analyzes the professional formation of the generation of philosophers who came to the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University in the last years of the USSR and graduated from it already in the “new” Yeltsin’s Russia of the early 90s. In particular, the situation of general cultural lag in which several generations of Soviet and post-Soviet people found themselves in the context of world culture is thematized. By several examples, the thesis of the asynchrony of their acquaintance with the phenomena of Western culture at different levels and, as a result, falling out of the general logic of their formation is substantiated. The article also presents the history of the creation and development strategy of the philosophical journal “Logos” as a project to overcome the mentioned backlog. In conclusion, the authors attempt to explicate the ontological, epistemological and ethical-aesthetic foundations of their generational background.