Modern Extremism: Who Is to Blame and What to Do? Review of A.V. Rimskiy's monograph "Man in the Practices of Extremism (Philosophical and Cultural Interpretation)"

Abstract

The reviewed monograph by A.V. Rimskiy, a cultural philosopher and jurist, summarizes the results of his almost 20 years of creative work on countering extremism. According to the reviewers, the monograph reveals in its entirety and with impeccable logic the idea that the problem of extremism is closely linked to the civilizational and cultural confrontation between Russia and the West, extremism is produced by modernity as a cultural phenomenon generated by the West as a civilizational type, paradoxically contributing to the elimination of culture as such. The author of the monograph provides an exhaustive justification for the need for uncompromising counteraction to "man-made mythologization" in the field of mass communications at the state level.