Features of Modeling Social Relations in Publicism D.I. Fonvisina

Abstract

The author believes that Fonvizin, who sincerely considered himself a man of progressive views, was not ready for a collision with European reality, which is going through one of the periods of the crisis of traditionalist culture and the rapid formation of new social relations, more characteristic of the next stage of European development: industrial, urban, etc. Analysis of the models of social behavior presented in letters from abroad within the chronotopes of the street, house and theater made it possible to reveal his deep, worldview positions. The essence of these positions is that the Russian satirist considered the basis of the social order to be a clear class division, the performance by each person of his class-social role, characteristic of the traditionalist type of culture. He perceived the transformation of models of social behavior, violations and weakening of boundaries between social groups as harbingers of the collapse of the moral foundations of contemporary society.