Аntique matrix of modern latent barbarity

Abstract

As a subject of analysis, the article proposes a research model for the study of the modern barbarity. The Greek-Latin narrative tradition of barbarians is presented as the antique matrix of barbarity, which creates an image of the barbarian in action, dynamics, quality and integrative characteristics.

The attention is drawn to the possibility of using the antique matrix of perception and understanding of barbarity in the study of the modern “new barbarity”. In this regard, the author highlights issues of the prerequisites and peculiarities of the manifestation of “new barbarity” manifestation in the dynamics of modern civilizational processes. She also considers the forms of “new barbarity” (intellectual, aesthetic, barbarization of worldview), that emerged in the Postmodern era.

For the first time the latent barbarity is accentuated as an independent historical phenomenon, which is defined as the special form of existence of barbarity within civilization. The scientific novelty is the first formulated historical and terminological characteristics of the nature of the latent barbarity (hidden and being hidden) as a way of social barbarism.

In the course of analysis, the author denotes the birth conditions forms of manifestation and spheres of influence of latent barbarity inside civilization. She is the first to demonstrate its danger place in social history.