The many sidedness of the meanings of life of the Russian intelligentsia. Following social ideals or their simulations?

The article is devoted to the sociological understanding the “meaning of life” by the Russian intelligentsia, the simulation of ideas about the role of the intelligentsia in the public social space, the substitution with the “simulacra” of scientific and educational activities among representatives of modern social sciences and humanities. It presents different points of view on the Russian intelligentsia, designed to express the meanings of life and the social interests of all strata and groups of Russian society, in contrast to western intellectuals seeking to become part of the establishment. The author critically considers the urgency of the public need to uncover the creative potential of the humanitarian intelligentsia and the paradoxical forms of distortion of the meaning of the life of the intelligentsia, the loss of ideas about it as a social and status community, carrying the mission of education, culture, education, social serving to the people. She shows attempts of the intelligentsia ideological mobilization, the imitation of its participation in the democratization of public life, the replacement of the traditional image of the university professor by the person providing “educational services”, in alienating the creative reproduction of the humanitarian intelligentsia.

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