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SEMIOTICS OF THE ANTIQUE PLOT IN NATIONAL AESTHETIC CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ERA OF PETER I (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE DESCRIPTION OF A SOLEMN GATE OF 1703 AND 1704) // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2016. Issue 4 (10). P. 82-92

The paper is concerned with the esthetic arrangement of the new elements of Antiquity in structure of the national cultural consciousness that interprets the borrowed ancient text in a perspective of political changes. New antiquity forms were entered by Peter I into the field of Russian semiotics and founded beginning for new cultural ideas in historical formation of Russian esthetics. The Antiquity which is revealed in forms of the Byzantine model is a substratum of the Russian spiritual culture of which its linguistic parameters were set by formulas of works of East Fathers of church in national literature of Russian Middle Ages. Peter the Great’s era combines subject lines of two historically developed modes of ancient art in space of Russian esthetics: East (Greek) and Western (Latin). Article purpose is to analyze connecting of two antique paradigms in ontology of the Russian culture by means of esthetic categories: ‘beautiful’ / ‘ugly’. The research has been conducted on the example of the authentic texts of the beginning of the 18th century on the basis of philological and hermeneutical methods.

Keywords: Russia, Peter the Great, text of ancient art, semiotics, antique mythology, interpretation, art form, semantic field, aesthetics

TERMINOLOGICAL AND CATEGORICAL PROLEGOMENONS TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL TEXT OF URBANISTICS // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2017. Issue 2 (12). P. 79-91

The paper is concerned with the theoretical field of urban philosophy regarding its terminological and conceptual development. Numerous cultural analyses of the historical and modern city text allow to draw a conclusion that the city space in structure of a civilization has an own synergetic existence, i.e. ability to generate cultural energy and to make her exchange with other systems of human society in the course of his evolution. The similar assumption allows to allocate limits of the term “urbanistics” as the certain area of a philosophical research and to define it as the multidimensional semiotics object having strong interpretation potential. The position of urbanistics in a philosophical view establishes intrinsic approach to intellectually level of the city space that develops the movement of sense in the cultural text between a form and its significance. One of the main gnoseological tools of philosophical knowledge is the categorical framework. The purpose of this work is an opportunity to define the new philosophical and theoretical directions in categorial system of urbanistics. The philosophical structure of the categorial apparatus of urbanistics is being formulated. The substantial philosophy of R. Descartes serves as intellectual model for system creation of categorial hierarchy. This study at inclusion of hermeneutical and dialectic methods has found out that in general the urban text can be represented in two forms – an extended, encompassing the space of visual semiotics, and a mental, endowing with perpetual cultural meanings every element of urban ontology. The interrelation of two specified forms reflects the dialectic union forming the hypertext of city space and demands further conceptual expansion in structure of a philosophical research.

Keywords: city structure, conceptual model, conceptual categorical apparatus, semiotics, substance, philosophical urbanistics