Features of the chronotopological structure of existence in the "Snail on the Slope" by the Strugatsky brothers

Identificator

EDN: NOYECW ; УДК: 111.1

Authors

Politov Andrei Viktorovich, Doctor of Philosophy, docent, professor, Perm National Research Polytechnic University. ORCID: 0000-0003-4175-9040. E-mail: avpolitov@pstu.ru

Journal

HERALD OF VYATKA STATE UNIVERSITY №2 (156), 2025

Section

PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES. PANEL DISCOURSE "RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY: AN EXPERIENCE WITH POLYPHONY"

Pages

34-43

Abstract

Russian thinkers Ukhtomsky and Bakhtin have popularized the chronotope as one of the concepts in philosophy. In the teachings of Ukhtomsky, chronotope as the interconnectedness of being characterizes the existence of a thing and a person. A single entity forms a microchronotope, represented by a world line, organically inscribed in the world macrochronotope. Human existence appears as a chronotopological whole formed by the path-time and the world-space. Being in the chronotope is characterized by a moral component, the dominant of which is the Face of another person. According to Bakhtin's teaching, the chronotope acts as both a material and a semantic spatiotemporal whole, characterizing not only the autonomous microcosm of art, but also the existence of the author and the hero. A person's appeal to an artistic creation takes the form of an existential dialogue. The ontological communication of chronotopes opens in the event of a meeting with the author and the hero. The purpose of the issue is to trace the features of the chronotopological structure of human existence in its relation to the surrounding world, nature, society and oneself. The famous work of Russian literature of the twentieth century, "The Snail on the Slope" by the Strugatsky brothers, which reveals the specifics of human existence of the past century, will serve as a material for analysis.

Keywords

Ukhtomsky Bakhtin Strugatsky chronotopology Russian philosophy

Recieved

07.10.2025

Published

14.04.2026

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