Universality of the «Elightenment Project» for the West and the East
https://doi.org/10.53658/RW2022-2-3(5)-171-195
Abstract
The article is devoted to the problem of the emergence and disclosure of the potential of modern industrial society as the implementation of the European «Enlightenment project» in the XVIII-XX centuries. The main principles and stages of the formation of an integral ideological and political system, which served as the ideological basis for the emergence of a model of modern industrial society in Western European countries, and in the future - the spread of this model around the world as a normative one, are shown. At the same time, by the end of the 20th century, the universality of the “Enlightenment project" gradually raised doubts in non-Western societies that did not experience the fundamental upheavals of the Reformation and bourgeois revolutions, but remained faithful to the original foundations of their civilizations. In turn, in the Western «core» of modern society, the potential of the «Enlightenment project» was completed, during which its ideals came into conflict with its principles. In the 21st century, the development of a new project that meets the conditions of the technological revolution and the features of a multipolar world system becomes an urgent task.
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About the Author
A. I. Yakovlev
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexander I. Yakovlev, DSc (Hist.). Professor. Chief Researcher
Institute of Oriental Studies
Center for Arab and Islamic Studies
107031
12 Rozhdestvenka str.
Moscow
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Yakovlev A.I. Universality of the «Elightenment Project» for the West and the East. Russia & World: Sc. Dialogue. 2022;(3):171-195. https://doi.org/10.53658/RW2022-2-3(5)-171-195
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