Golozubov O. Joy and laughter in the postmodern cultural practices (philosophical and anthropological dimensions)

The object - cultural practices of the postmodern; a purpose -to substantiate the philosophical-anthropological dimensions of joy, laughter and buffoonery in the cultural practices of the postmodern; methods - culturological, comparative, method of the philosophical-anthropological reduction, hermeneutical, deconstruction; novelty - new interpretation of the postmodern cultural practices is elaborated on the base of the concepts like theology of joy, theology of laughter, theology of foolishness and buffoonery; they are represented as ways to reveal the philosophical-anthropological dimensions of the culture; it is proposed conception of the Divine comedy as dialogical space where sacral and profane co-operate; anthropological as well as interdisciplinary and cross-cultural character of the postmodern cultural practices is well-grounded; the conception of trickster and fool in the postmodern culture is detailed; concept of the religious foolishness is proposed and its main components are defined; interpretation of the God's Fool as anthropological center of the theology of joy and laughter is proposed; systematic analysis of the neomedievism as postmodern cultural practice is done; image of Saint Francis of Assisi in the new Medieval Ages' situation is reconstructed; results can be used in the further philosophical-anthropological studies in the current field, philosophical and theological interpretations of joy and laughter, studying of the dialogical forms towards laughter, in the building of the well-grounded educational and cultural strategies oriented on the development of the personality; it can be used also in the courses of Cultural Studies, History of Philosophy, Religious Studies, special courses; field - philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture