LIFE AS ANALLEGORY: ONTHOGNOSEOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL PROSPECT OF FIGARUTIVE EXPRESSION OF SOCIALITY

Abstract

The authors consider categories and methods of esthetic anthropology; state specific esthetic-anthropological problematic of infinity of human being, revealing the uncertainty when solving problems of ecological character relevant both in space of power and in the space of “citizens' society”. The article articulates social and spiritual paradox which is key in ecology and is deeply seated in mental, spiritual and moral characteristics of public mind and public unconscious which can be defined as “a collapse before infinity”, concealment of long-term prospects from pretensions of human target setting. The authors reveal the potential of esthetic methods of self-cognition as a component of esthetic anthropology, including pre-rational elements of knowledge. The social aspect of human being and its “living” expressive, figurative, esthetic characteristics is studied.