The meanings leave us

Alexander Rubtsov died. Hoorants Russian philosophy and political journalism. And this, alas, is not a farewell pathos

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Farewell to Alexander Rubtsov will be held in the ritual hall of the Khovansky cemetery crematorium on December 13 at 12:00. The bus from the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences will go at 10:30.

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“Imagine, I am in a tie. And so every day to work. ” So Sasha Rubtsov talked about his short period of regular work in the government apparatus. He was a real philosopher, that is, a person who, in the reform of technical regulation, could see a deep philosophical meaning. It is very flattering for the reform of the technical regulation ... Alexander Vadimovich, who walked all year round in slippers on a rubber move, did not fit really into government standards. But the government needed it, and not it to him.

Fantastic performance and productivity. Perhaps Rubtsov was the second person after Alan Grinspin, who managed to work, lying in the bathroom. Only instead of papers, Sasha had a tablet in his hands. Then the battle with the editors for volume began. And the battle of editors with the text, which, with all its impressive volume, was invariably so dense that it was difficult to throw even a word from there. Each sentence is aphorism. And this is while maintaining scientificity: perhaps most of the sheet of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, it was Sasha. Endless collections, transcripts of performances, articles, books.

The last book-although in the case of Rubtsov it was impossible to be sure that in recent months, another volume has not been released-was dedicated to ruthless analysis of the main one. Analysis of the fatal narcissism of the state. Sasha would appreciate the ironic, but appropriate pathos: his “Narcissus in Armor. The psychoidology of the “grandiose I” in politics and the authorities , published in the Covid 2020, during the prelude to the disaster that happened to the country, became its intellectual will. In the annotation, he, prophesy and forward, wrote (could not do without proprietary irony):

“The hardest all the modes, fixed in the illusions of their own grandeur and omnipotence. Just as the Narcissus and Echo died not so much from unrequited love as from elementary hunger, entire countries can morally and "physically" degraded in their own irresistible reflection. "

These few phrases describe the state of Russia and the world to times that have occurred after 2020. February 2022 was not the beginning, but only the culmination of processes that have already occurred in states and societies for many years. “Narcissus in Armor” was dedicated to the memory of the closest friend of Sasha Boris Grigoryevich Yudin, the largest specialist in bioetics. Which in today's times is replaced by vulgar biopolitics, when the state freely disposes of the bodies of its subjects.

At the Institute of Philosophy, Alexander Rubtsov was engaged in the study of ideologies. When almost everyone said that the Russian regime has no ideology, he simply investigated what this regime was built, namely, on a completely intelligible archaic ideology . She was, in the terms of Sasha, “diffuse”, “latent”, but turned out to be a noticeable armed and naked eye. She showed herself, grew stronger, swearing and eventually determined the most decisive and terrible steps of the state. Having moved glasses on his nose, Sasha saw significantly further than her own nose, which was not given to numerous researchers of everyday life, unable to see even the second layer of the problem:

“... If there is no ideology where we are used to seeing it, this does not mean that it is no longer at all. Including it is also necessary to keep in mind not only rationally designed, verbal, discursive forms of ideology, but also its hidden, supplanted, latent forms, including a kind of ideological unconscious. Ideology is completely more effectively broadcasting through images, through mood control means, through emotional channels, prompts of actions ... "

The ideology of the regime was buried in his own historical policy:

“The noticeable exaggerations of their own significance in the cult of victory and victorious as such are largely explained by the banal absence of other self -combination resources in a stranger borrowed by greatness. If there is a craving for megalomania, but there is nothing to defeat the world from the achievements of their civilian life, the images of greatness borrow from history - and it is from the history of military triumphs. ”

The collective psychostory predetermined the collective psychopolitics. I use Rubtsov’s terms. Hence the cold analysis of the fake narcissistic historical interpretations proposed by the state. And also the understanding that the main question of modernity is: “What is the past of the future of Russia?”

And Sasha, with rapture, painted these images of the future, as soon as the authorities for a short period gave the opportunity to play these games, pretending to be the problem of goal -setting seriously. This was in the 1990s, and in the zero, and in the deceitful era of Medvedev’s presidency and the work of the Institute of Modern Development. Tom remained. The last attempt to wave the outgoing modernization train remained on paper - a report with the characteristic name “Foundation of the Future” (2011):

“At the beginning of the XXI century, Russia is again at a crossroads. But now this is a choice not even between the directions of the movement, but between the future of the country and its absence, between the movement forward and the rolling into the fingers of world development ... The current inertial trajectory has no future - neither "bright" nor at least acceptable. " Modernization in this program was called the "project of national salvation."

Lateous: demo -edition has begun.

After this, there were no more attempts to work - only the works within the framework of the Committee of Civil Initiatives created by Alexei Kudrin. And after civil society became the object of persecution, they have gone the past that could still be the future of Russia, and these studies. But Rubtsov was then in the struggle: the gross straightforward attack of obscurantists on the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences was repulsed in many ways with his personal efforts in 2021 and 2022. And then Sasha fell ill very seriously ... For years I persuaded him to write memoirs, because he knew everyone and everything, falling into the circle of now legendary Soviet and non -Soviet philosophers and intellectuals by a very young man. But it was more interesting for him to open, analyze and describe what is happening now.

Edit Rubtsov or writing with him is a difficult rapture. In essence, he had to be left alone so that he himself created the impression of collective labor. Having composed an inspired approach to some next program of modernization of Russia, he, having strangled it, could say: “Well, we wrote great!”

Sasha was called "Xan." Playing, he inserted references to his texts to the aphorisms of a certain Xan - either ancient or medieval author, well, you never know, maybe there was such a ... company, kind, open, acutely feeling falsity, careerism and illiteracy, infinitely talented, widely watched on the object and knew how to give him a uniform. It is amazing this combination of absolute informality in the appearance and character with the ability to cast your thoughts in a strict form of articles, books and software documents. Even the name of his long -standing dissertation was: "The ordering of a work of art as an object of aesthetic analysis."

On December 29, Sasha would have turned 72. According to current concepts - only 72.

The orphaned “grandiose self” of our power is orphaned - to describe it as Sasha did, there is no one else. It remained one with its reflection, and the devil with him ...

But the many people whom he gave his kindness are orphaned, many editions who had the happiness of publishing the author of Alexander Rubtsov, a wonderful wife Natasha, faithful dogs Churchill and a snack. The Russian philosophy is orphaned - I'm afraid this is not just a posthumous pathos.

It remains only to re-read the Sashins of the work in order to understand the essence of what is happening, and if someone wants to remake Russia in a humane way-and its programmails. About how to build the future, everything has already been written.