А.С. ПАНАРИН: У ИСТОКОВ НОВОГО ПРОЧТЕНИЯ КОНФЛИКТНОСТИ

Abstract

Статья посвящена разработке темы конфликта в творчестве А.С. Панарина. Автор показывает основные направления понимания конфликта российским философом, сравнивая его с такими французскими исследователями конфликта, как Г. Бутуль, основатель полемологии. Панарин предстает в статье в качестве исследователя, отошедшего от советской парадигмы рассмотрения конфликтов, но не принявшего безоговорочно аксиологию западных исследователей. ; In today's world, in the face of escalating all types of conflict, development of social and armed conflict theory is of particular importance. Philosophical and politological approaches to conflict study, especially among civilizational and polemological conceptions, as well as creativity of their authors are no less interesting. The most significant men of great caliber among such philosophers are, on my mind, Alexander Panarin in Russia, and Jean Fourastié and Gaston Bouthoul in France. Comparative study of their approaches to contemporary conflicts is even more interesting that the theme of A. Panarin's Ph.D. dissertation was a critical analysis of J. Fourastié's social concepts. The subject of my study is development of conflict problem in Panarin's works upwards his first writings in comparison with cognate ideas and tendencies intrinsic to French political and sociological thought in the meantime. Among methods used for these purposes in my study, such as bio-bibliographical and analytical-reading approaches, and discursive analysis, the main is comparative method. By means of this I compare A. Panarin's views at various stages of his creativity, and also consider those ones in comparison with Fourastié's and Bouthoul's researches in polemology. In my article, I show although Panarin's ideas formed and strengthened in absentee dialogue with French philosophical, socio-political and economic thought, Russian philosopher's judgments and conclusions are completely original. Thus, French polemologist Gaston Bouthoul has written polemology examines wars, peace, and violent conflicts in all their elements, not only on event-level; but also at the level of conditions; but especially and more deeply at the level of structures (demographic structure, demo-economic, geographical, historical, political, mental etc.) and functions, and almost all of these themes are reflected in Panarin's works. However, all these issues have been reflected by Panarin exclusively within Russian civilizational context and within the context of political analysis of the post-Soviet Russian ruling class' activities and intentions (which Panarin defined as 'liberal dismantling of Russia'). As to Panarin's methodology, I show he uses multi-level analysis to identify the springs of changes occurring in the globalized world and to uncover the motives of the subjects of these changes. He is looking for the causes of constant conflictness not only in the field of international relations, but also in political anthropology, political psychology, geopolitics, etc. I conclude A.S. Panarin's views on relationship between leading global players, as well as his realistic forecasts are correlated with global social and philosophical trends, but not because of his views and forecasts dependence on 'second-hand' ideas; this is because Panarin's philosophy, being Russian by its senses, belongs to the world treasury of philosophical thought.