Abstract

The article is about the revision, in connection with the crisis, primarily of the communist idea in the twentieth century. stable concepts, such as, for example, community (understood not as a social, institutionally realized form of collectivity, but as an intellectual form, as “an unorganized force, an intense feeling of participation in something), an image (which is not a subjective representation in the mind an absent object, but passive, deprived of a creative authority, mobile in relation to the figures reproduced in them, deprived of the status of a subject or object), individuality, singularity, etc. A methodological question is raised about ways of collecting and thinking through the world, dependent on time and independent of it, in particular, about the meaning of repetition. The role of H. Petrovsky in developing the theme of non-working, indescribable communities and the understanding of freedom, art, ethics, etc. associated with this theme is emphasized.