Nalepin, A. (2022). The axioms of folklore experience in writings of Russian philosophers in the 1900s–1930s (V. V. Rozanov, P. A. Florensky, E. N. Trubetskoy, B. P. Vysheslavtsev, I. A. Ilyin, and A. A. Vanovsky). Moscow: IMLI RAN. (In Russ.)

Abstract

The review is devoted to A. Nalepin’s monograph on the reception of folklore in Russian society in the first three decades of the 20th c. With urbanization on the rise, the contrast between traditional folklore and its new urban counterpart became more prominent. A key issue discussed by the author concerns the methodology for the study of the reception of folklore in works of Russian philosophers in a period when folklore was perceived as history rather than tradition, its erstwhile functions being replaced in popular consciousness by its aesthetic and ideological functions. Of special interest is the discussion of the influence that folklore consciousness can exercise over an individual artist’s works. The author also examines the complex cultural phenomenon of latent folklorism.