Философия музыки в зеркале современной эпохи (общие замечания)*

What about the modern era? How can you determine it? Today it is called differently: postmodernism, post-postmodernism, digital modernism, meta modernism, posthumanism, transhumanism, etc. All these names are different, but their essence is the same — an indication of the global crisis of culture and man that has established itself today. How does this crisis manifest itself?

We believe that we can talk about three main features of it, which are:

1) degradation of man — the hegemony of the animal in him;

2) technical totalitarianism;

3) oblivion of national shrines.

Let us look at these signs in order.

As is known, man is a complex creature that organically combines biological (animal) and social principles. The idea of a person as a two-part — biosocial — formation arose in the primitive era. It manifested itself in the depiction of tribal totems. A typical example is the famous sculpture “Man Lion”, found on the territory of modern Germany, representing a figure with a human body and a lion’s head, whose age is 40 thousand years.

The image of man as a biosocial phenomenon was established in the subsequent era — the era of the Ancient States and was associated with the image of mythical creatures whose body was an animal and whose head was a human. There are many examples of such images, the most striking of which is the image of a sphinx, whose body was a lion and the head was a human (male or female). The oldest image of a sphinx is the so-called Great Sphinx, located on the western bank of the Nile, in Giza. The sphinx figure is carved from a monolithic limestone rock in the form of a lion, whose face, as has long been believed, is given a portrait resemblance to Pharaoh Khafre.