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The article is devoted to Neotraditionalism as a subparadigm of Post-symbolism (its other two subparadigms are Avant-Garde and Socialist Realism). At the turn of the 19^th and 20^th centuries, when cultural continuity and succession were no longer assessed unambiguously, traditionalism demanded not a return, but a renewal: the essence of Neotraditionalism is not so much in a reverent attitude towards tradition, although this is an essential point, but in the re-ontologization of the aesthetic. The cultural, historical, mental prerequisites of Neotradi- tionalism and its key features are explored in this article. Neotraditional thinking appears as a special vector of creative quest, equally alternative to the divergent strategies of Avant-Garde and the regulatory intentions of the so-called “Socialist Realism.” The cultural intention of this vector of artistic evolution is the return of non-classical art of the 20^th century to the trans- historical and transtextual reality of the aesthetic object, rejected by the Avant-Garde and after it by Socialist Realism. The aesthetic objectivity of the world “order of the spiritual universe” (Pasternak) is conceived as an intentional object of intersubjective nature, analogous to myth in its Post-symbolist, personal and poetic hypostasis. This means the rehabilitation of creati- vity as “the consonance of the artistic soul with the true meaning of world and life phenomena” (Vl. Solovyov), the restoration of the aesthetic side of artistic writing.

Keywords: Neotraditionalism, Post-symbolism, aesthetics, crisis, tradition, ethos of soli- darity, intersubjectivity.