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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Antologiia, Aksiologiia, ili Filosofskoe Issledovanie PrirodyTsennostei
[ Theory of culture of the 20th century : Anthology: Axiology, or Philosophical Study of the Nature of Values]
Comp. by S.Ia Levit, ed. by E.M. Lazareva
Moscow: INION RAN, 1996 144 p Serie: Liki Kul’tury pbk. 13 x 20 cm. Printing 400 ISBN: No ISBN Language: Russian
This book of articles contains translated works of leading European and American axiologists. They discuss history of axiology ( T. Styczen (Poland)), the notion of value in modern anthropology (with the discussion of the following problems: cultural pluralism; cultural relativism in connection to esthetic reevaluation of cultural values and the Declaration of Independence; functionalism; applied anthropology -- modern philosopher D. Bidney (US)), formalism in ethics and the material ethics of values (with the discussion of the hierarchy of values -- M. Scheller (Germany)), the rise of scholarly philosophy (H. Reichenbach (1891-1953)), democracy and man’s nature (J. Dewey (1859-1952)), the focus of values (monotheism and relative values -- H. Niebuhr (1894-1962)). Bibliographic references.