Literary robinsonada and the invention of society
The article is devoted to the consideration of the influence of fiction on the formation of socio-humanitarian knowledge of modern times. It is shown how the emergence of the genre of literary robinsonade contributed to the construction of new subject areas, which became objects of research and description in new scientific disciplines - sociology and economics. The insular utopia is considered as a prototype of a modern «society» in which horizontal intersubjective communications are freed from vertically organized political hierarchies.