Webrary: the New Genre of Book

The article presents a new genre of book - webrary. Contemporary challenges of the book as a cultural phenomenon determine its current state as crisis. The authors develop the theory of cultural phenomenology as a basis for a new book genre which will visualize the culture. Combination of the text with the new options of digital technologies opens some unusual perspectives. The theory of cultural phenomenology consists of an object field, concepts, and principles as mechanisms to overcome problems. Theoretically, there is a difference between the “cultural phenomena”, fundamental, constitutive in their nature, and the “phenomena of culture”, caused by the history. The cultural phenomena occur in the “axial time”, and a specific composition of them creates the uniqueness of each culture. Cultural anthropology constitutes a philosophical basis for cultural phenomenology. The reported theoretical developments are brought to the level of practical application by the authors of the article.

«осевое время» культуры, webrary-book, genre of book, crisis of book, cultural phenomenology, cultural phenomenon, composition of phenomenon, memoritary, “axial age” of culture

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