CIVILIZATIONAL FUTURE OF RUSSIA: THE CONTEXTUAL PROBLEMS
The article deals with the determining factors of cultural and civilizational development of Russia. The development of Western technogenic civilization, with its values of agonal personality and rationalism is considered as an external factor of influence and at the same time repeatedly demanded model of technological renewal. Liberal values and state paternalism are evaluated as internal, contradictory factors that determine the vector of further development of Russia. Radicalism in the proclamation and implementation of liberal values has repeatedly provoked authoritarianism and autocracy in the history of Russia. At the same time, modern Russia shows the development of the agonistics and personal independence. The author proposes consideration of public space as the embodiment of the contradiction between agonal and passionate concepts. The boundaries of this space are outlined by the democratic principles of people’s power and the rule of law.