"Моё собственное слово о себе"

My own word about myself (Three of the confession of European culture)

Abstract

Christianity formed a new space of European culture, revealing personality in its “word about itself ” (Bakhtin), embodied in the confession. Confessions, having become the source of European subjectivity / individualism, are focused on the unprecedented scale of the process of person’s deepening into himself. Confessions of three European writers (Aurelius Augustine, Pierre Abelard, Jean-Jacques Rousseau), which were the focus of the author's attention, represent a rather complex unity of reliable facts, truthful feelings, conscious silence, individual interpretations and interpretations, where it is impossible to determine the boundaries of truth and deviation from it. In the course of the confessions, each author, willingly or unwittingly, creates and leaves to the contemporaries and descendants a certain self-concept — their own interpretation and interpretation of both the events of their lifes and the properties of character, feelings, moods, which form together a certain shape of the narrator. All three authors have created artistic self-portraits, "imposing" their semantics not only to the next generations, but also to readers of the next centuries, who, on the one hand, continue to perceive the created images in the planned aspects, and on the other — constantly introduce new values, determined by their own cultural, historical and individual personal preferences.