Abstract

In this article I will discuss a problem of spiritual crisis present in the latest years in the Russian philosophical literature and in the newest philosophical concepts of the West. One of the main problems is a problem of a modern person, a person captured by a destructive antihistoricism and ‘chronos-phagos’ root, in my opinion, and the absence of understanding of the nature of historical time; a place occupied by eternity and the present. The time problem is possible to explain, but the modern philosophy pays little attention to a traditional ontological problematics and, in particular, ontology of time. It is possible to avoid this lack, from my point of view, not only by working out and “duplicating” new discourse history concepts, but also by modern use and creative reconsideration of classical representations of historical time.