Ecological Culture of Modern Russian Society: on the Threshold of the Gnoseological Paradigm

Abstract

Introduction. The strategy of sustainable socio-economic development of the Russian Federation in the conditions of steadily growing political and macroeconomic turbulence poses the problem of the formation of a new modern type of ecological culture, adequate to the consequences of the global ecological crisis. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the need for a worldview rethinking of the essence, content and role of ecological culture in the development of modern Russian society. Materials and Methods. The study used axiological, dialectical, structural-functional, program-targeted and hermeneutic methods of analysis and assessment of the phenomenon of ecological culture, as well as interdisciplinary and problem approaches in the reconstruction of the processes of its development and improvement. Results. The article analyzes the problem of the formation of modern ecological culture in the conditions of macroeconomic uncertainty and instability, taking into account the specific tasks facing the state environmental policy. The concepts of “ecological culture” and “creative economy”, “ecological production” and “ecological management” are correlated. The main elements of ecological culture and theoretical and methodological approaches to its study in Russian and world science, as well as the main trends in its development, are revealed. The authors formulated the idea of the need for a moral and ethical rethinking of the phenomenon of ecological culture within the framework of economic science and overcoming its narrowly technocratic interpretation. Methods are shown and estimates of the nature and dynamics of development of ecological culture in modern conditions are given. Discussion and Conclusion. Based on the use of the conceptual provisions of social philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of science and political economy (the ideas of autopoiesis by N. Luhmann, scientific paradigms of N. Wiener and T. Kuhn, economic ethics of A. Smith, a new model of rapidly reacting production by R. Suri, noonomy of S. Bodrunov and others) formulated specific recommendations for the formation of a new type of ecological culture, corresponding to a new social reality. The content of the modern paradigm in the development of ecological culture as a process of moving away from the cult of consumption to the principle of expanded reproduction of the environment is revealed.