ARE WE GIVEN TO PREDICT HOW OUR WORD WOULD COME BACK?

In the conditions of the media turning into the fourth power, the problem of the effectiveness of the system of verbal descriptions and images, their correspondence to the realities of public life acquires a particular philosophical signifcance. Analysis of Tyutchev’s linguistic skepticism he showed in the famous formula “We are not given to predict ...”, requires scientifc attention from the philosophy of language, literature and cultural studies. Moreover, this skepticism today has gained a lot of weight among theorists and practitioners, whose interests are connected with the topic of international relations and philosophical comparative studies. The relevance of the approach, whose appearance in the history of national thought can be associated with the names of the poet and diplomat F.I. Tyutchev and writer and member of the diplomatic mission I.A. Goncharova, thus no doubt. An appeal to a meaningful consideration of their ideas in the context of biographical, as well as historical and comparative methods allows us to trace the main vectors that formed linguistic skepticism within the framework of the philosophy of culture - one of the most valuable theoretical frameworks that allow realizing the urgent tasks of diplomacy as a specifc professional activity in the feld of international interaction. The inexhaustibility of the world of words and the world of theoretical and practically signifcant concepts behind it, with their infnity of shades of meaning and possibilities of its interpretation, constantly requires an answer to the same question: to what extent is the specifc content presented in these meanings and narratives? After all, such content is the basic prerequisite of political and diplomatic goal setting and at the same time the relief of the initial conditions that contribute to or impede the realization of the set goals that correspond to state geopolitical and other interests. Since politics in general and diplomacy in particular combine not only the systems of scientifc knowledge, but also art in its specifc manifestations, analysis of the experience of subjects of political and diplomatic activity and elements of the “possible”, turning to the study of the reflection of combinations of these elements in specifc life settings of Tyutchev and Goncharov represents not only historical, but also quite practical and even pragmatic interest. Thus, the novelty of the presented article consists in revealing and describing the phenomenon of linguistic skepticism as an important philosophical principle, revealed in the work of outstanding nineteenth-century Russian thinkers who were in the public service.

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