Philosophy and Aesthetics of Postmodernism in V. Erofeev's poem "Moscow-Petushki"

Abstract

Postmodernism is not just a trend in modern humanities that denies the very possibility of a unified philosophical system. This is an eclectic and complex phenomenon in terms of combinatorics of elements, which influenced the perception not only of the world, but also of the Text as the code system of this world. This article is an attempt to comprehend the phenomenon of postmodernism from the point of view of philosophy and aesthetics. Throwing a diachronic look at the development of postmodernist ideas based on poststructuralism, we will try to show how the approach to aesthetic reality has gradually changed.

Russian postmodernism, as our analysis shows, developed in its own authentic context, overcoming its secondary nature. Russian literature has developed a new type of hero - the "enraged" little man, the holy fool, the madman, the alcoholic. This type of subject is natural: it is the consciousness subject to aberrations that correlates with the idea of the world's entropic movement towards disintegration. Polyvariant interpretation, pastiche, intertextuality, attitude to the world as a text, literary centering become the features of the poetics of the postmodern text.

The material of our analysis was the poem by V. Erofeev "Moscow - Petushki". Its hero, who is both the author and narrator of the text, is included in the echo chamber of the text and tries to shake the established world through the mode of self-irony and agnosticism.

Key words: postmodernism, aesthetics, poetics, philosophy, V. Erofeev, "Moscow - Petushki".