Philosophical and Ethical Intensions of the Category of Heroic in L.N. Tolstoy’s Early Works
Journal: Observatory of Culture
Year: 2018

Texts of culture, which act as “generators of meaning”, are associated by Yu.M. Lotman, in his work “The History and Typology of Culture”, with the problem of memory that makes possible the reconstruction of the history of culture from its synchronic slices. The study of L.N. Tolstoy’s early works allows to judge the figurative character of the philosophical ethical intentions of the category of heroic that were embodied in the topic of “man and war”. The category of heroic is reflected in the c