Copy: The method of forming the dialogic basis of sociality as a factor of historical dynamics

Shemyakin, Jacob Georgievich
D.Sc. in History, Chief Researcher, Center of Culture Studies, Institute of Latin America RAS, Assistant Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences Center, MIPT University, Moscow, Russia
shemyakinx3@gmail.com


Abstract
The dominant principle of unity in the great "classical" civilizations (these civilizations, "sub-ecumens" as G.S. Pomerantz called them, include the West and the North.
The West, Indo-Buddhist South Asia, Confucianist-Buddhist East Asia and the world of Islam belong to these "classical" civilizations: the "Other", though included in the picture of the world of the self-identifying civilization, is only an absolutely alien reality, being at an immeasurably lower level of being than this civilization itself. The most "exclusionary" discourse is characteristic of the West.
In the civilizational "borderland" (at present its main representatives are Russia-Eurasia, Latin America, Balkan and - with significant reservations - Iberian cultural and historical communities) the picture is fundamentally different: the "Other" is included in the living space of each of the interaction participants, is perceived as an integral component of this space (and regardless of the attitude towards it). The dominance of this or that discourse determines the whole character of the historical evolution of the corresponding societies.

Keywords: dialogue, "The Other", historical dynamics, "inclusive discourse", "exclusive discourse"