The Concept of «Love» in the Aspect of Intercultural Communication (on the Basis of Journalistic Works of Ivan Ilyin)

Abstract

The article analyzes the contents of the concept “love”— one of the key
 concepts in the journalistic papers of Ivan Ilyin. In his works we find true
 language culture and a deep understanding of ideas most important for
 humanity. The source of the study is philosophical and journalistic sheets
 “Our Mission” published I. Ilyin in 1948–1954. I.A. Ilyin wrote “Our Mission”
 not only for his contemporaries but also “for the new Russian generation”.
 He hoped that his findings and conclusions gained through suffering will the
 new generations cope with the problem of Russia’s revival, with the task of
 forming the spiritual nature of the nation.
 I. Ilyin understands love as one of the three laws of the spirit, one of the
 three great foundations of human life and culture. Such an understanding is
 compared with modern ideas about the concept – the fact that we find quite
 justified, because “Our Mission” has its roots in the pre-revolutionary culture
 and the reading of the text in question is essentially a step in cross-cultural
 communication mediated through language.