THE HERITAGE OF RUDOLF OTTO IN PHENOMENOLOGY OF CULTURE

1917 was a turning point not only in histories of many countries but also in the spiritual culture cognition, because in that year the book “The Idea of the Holy” (Das Heilige) of the Lutheran theologian Rudolf Otto became known. This book interprets the religion, in a Kantian-phenomenological way, as a stable relation of a living entity and the being, and it cannot be explained, for it is a mystery. R. Otto is a key figure not only in philosophy of religion but also in pheno­menology. His phenomenological teaching is consi­dered as a methodology for cultural stereotypes transcending. The relevance of the topic is determined by theoretical, practical and global aspects: 1) a hundred years is a significant period for summing up the results of the work’s intellectual history; 2) Otto’s method can be reco­mmended for managing the ethnoconfessional diversity; 3) the ethos of intercultural communication requires today a vision of unity, rather than differences. The novelty of the study is in generalization of the impact of Otto’s book on the subsequent philosophy and cultural studies.

The author follows the position that Otto’s phenomeno­logy has not reached its limits, and actualizes this theoretical method as a means of intercultural communication. The article gives an assessment of Otto’s teachings by Russian and foreign thinkers, and examines the concepts of the numinous and the Other.

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