Small Reviews (About the Event of Thought and the Crisis of Subject)

The following text is a response to the publication of the journal in the rubric “Philosophy and history of science”. This text is called “Small Reviews”. Why? First of all, because the author has not set the task of a comprehensive analysis of publications. The text focuses on the pedagogical pragmatics of the peer-reviewed articles. In D.G. Ryndin’s article the author was attracted by that part, where the pedagogical practice of M.K. Mamardashvili was analyzed. Assessing the article of D.G. Ryndin as a whole positively, the reviewer believes that the author failed to convincingly show the poetics of philosophical speech and the fundamental relationship between the content and form of philosophizing and adduces her arguments for such an assessment. In the article devoted to the epistemological crisis of the subject, the reviewer has found many sources for pedagogical reflection and formulated them in the form of several provisions that should obviously be guided by each teacher. The reviewer believes that if the authors gave due consideration to the pedagogical theory and pedagogical characteristics of the subject, they would have enriched the their ideas about the crisis of education, its causes and consequences.

1. Ryndin, D.g. (2019). [Merab Mamardashvili: Event of Thought and Pedagogic Practice]. Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii = Higher Education in Russia. Vol. 28. No. 1, pp. 104-118. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)

2. Mamardashvili, M.K. Lektsii o Pruste (Psihologicheskaya Topologiya Puti) [Lectures about Proust (Psychological Topology of the Path)]. Available at: dom-knig.com/read_241587-1 (In Russ.)

3. Polonnikov, A.A. (2019). [Educational Policies of Writing and Reading (A Commentary on D.g. Ryndin’s Article]. Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii = Higher Education in Russia. Vol. 28. No. 1, pp. 119-129. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)

4. Azarova, N.M. (2010). Yazyk filosofii i yazik poezii – dvizhenie navstrechu (grammatika, leksika, tekst) [Language of Philosophy and Language of Poetry – Movement Towards (grammar, Vocabulary, Text). Moscow: Logos, gnosis Publ., 496 p. (In Russ.)

5. Balburov, E.A. (2009). [Philosophical Speech in the System of Language]. Kritika i semiotika [Criticism and Semiotics]. Issue. 13. Novosibirsk-M., pp. 7-27. Available at: http://www.philology.ru/linguistics1/balburov-09.htm (In Russ.)

6. Sapunov, M.B., Polonnikov, A.A. (2018). [Academic Subject Problem: Epistemological Crisis and Its Overcoming]. Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii = Higher Education in Russia. Vol. 27. No. 12, pp. 144-157. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)

7. Coombs, Ph. H. (1968). The World Educational Crisis: A Systems Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press. 241 p. (Russian translation: Moscow: Progress Publ., 1970, 261 p.)

8. Ivanova, E.O., Osmolovskaya, I.M. (Eds). (2012). Predmetnost obucheniya v shkolnom obrazovatelnom protsesse [Academic Subjects in School Educational Process]. Moscow: FgNU ITIP RAO Publ., 382 p. (In Russ.); Osmolovskaya, I.M. (2012). [The Subject of Training and Subjects in the Context of Various Didactic Approaches]. Obrazovanie i nauka = Education and science. No. 7, pp. 67-78. (In Russ., abstract in Eng.)