Apophaticism of Soviet Culture Philosophical Aspect of Song by M. Matusovsky

Abstract

The article deals with the concept of "apophaticism" which is relevant not only for theology but also for philosophical and philological knowledge. The linguists are interested in apophaticism of the language, which primarily refer to vocabulary. During the last decades of hermeneutics development, the literary scholars also actively referred to apophatic tradition. The need to develop the idea of Russian poetry as an apophatic one is long overdue and it requires new approaches and works. The object of this article is the Soviet times and the thaw period with its binary formations; and the song "Moscow Nights" by M. Matusovsky is in the center of linguistic and philosophical research. Much attention is paid to text fragments with verbal negation.