Co-existence with the jubilee. To the 75th anniversary of Aleksey Ale-kseevich Gryakalov

Abstract

The publication is dedicated to the anniversary of the famous St. Petersburg philosopher, professor of the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University Aleksey A. Gryakalov. The authors of the publication (Boris I. Pruzhi­nin, Tatiana G. Shchedrina, Aleksey P. Kozyrev, Elena N. Us­tyu­go­va, Sergey L. Fo­kin, Konstantin G. Isupov, Zlatica Pla­ši­en­ko­vá, and Aleksandr K. Se­katsky) consider various aspects of A.A. Grya­kalov's work, both philosophical and artistic: studies in the aesthetics of structuralism; analysis of Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky's texts; treatises on the experience of philosophical writing, life of thought in V.V. Rozanov’s word; the interrelationship between the aesthe­tic with the political; the aesthetics of the event and the position of the Other; the aesthetic experience of the unity of Word and Logos, life and text; metatextuality, flowing from speculation into the work of fiction; the intersection and interpenetration of metaphysical ideas and the poetic word, as well as personal life experience, philosophical erudition and creative imagination; the topology of the subject (Da-sein) and the testimony of man, including through fiction. The subject of discussion in the publication is not only A.A. Gryakalov's philosophical articles and monographs, but also his artistic prose – a kind of aesthetic event in which existential, anthropological, affective, mental and bodily processes are harmoniously intertwined. It is noted that A.A. Gryakalov succeeded in expanding the boundaries of aesthetics, which became for him, as a result, the first philosophy. The authors of the publication  make a conclusion that A.A. Gryakalov should be regarded as one of the most interesting and fruitful con­tem­po­ra­ry Russian thinkers who developed a literature-centered attitude to the solution of philosophical questions.