Doi: 10. 17516/1997-1370-0640 Socio-Cultural Determinacy of Human Loneliness

Keywords: loneliness, culture, society, community, Meeting, human integrity.
Research area: philosophy.
Citation: Belyaev, I.A., Lyashchenko, M.N. (2020). Socio-cultural determinacy of human loneliness. J. 
Sib. Fed. Univ. Humanit. Soc. Sci., 13(8), 
1264–1274
DOI: 10.17516/1997-1370-0640.
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences
2020 13(8): 1264–1274
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Igor A. Belyaev and Maksim N. Lyashchenko. Socio-Cultural Determinacy of Human Loneliness
Introduction
After the collapse of the USSR, Russian 
researchers, including philosophers working 
on cultural and anthropological problems, 
found themselves in a deep and protracted 
methodological crisis, first of all, caused by 
discrediting the previously unambiguously 
dominant dialectical materialism. The harsh 
criticism of the Marxist philosophical doc-
trine that unfolded in the first post-Soviet 
years, with the simultaneous recognition of its 
cognitive inconsistency and incompatibility 
with other approaches and paradigms, made it 
almost inevitable to abandon it. The variety of 
Western philosophical approaches and trends 
that became available in these years has be-
come and still remains the dominant method-
ological basis for cultural and human studies. 
Therefore, the philosophical and culture-fo-
cused understanding of human loneliness in 
the context of the teachings of K. Marx with 
its heuristic value reinforced by the research 
orientation towards the use of interdisciplin-
ary connections, should deepen the prevailing 
ideas concerning this phenomenon and con-
tribute to the identification of socio-cultural 
patterns of its occurrence and existence.