ECONOMIC CULTURE IN THE CONTEMPORARY ERA: SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT

ing from the purely instrumental aspect of this issue determines the expediency of not only recognizing the mutual influence of the economy and culture, but also determines the need to interpret the economy as a culture. According to A. A. Pogrebnyak and D. E. Raskov, an economy that is part of a person’s cultural activity, which requires a search for a new vision of its subject field, will help to overcome the isolation of economic theory from moral, historical, social and even metaphysical contexts. Culture has a meaning-forming content. It refers to the fact that it is transcendental to the field of meanings of any abstract system that represents this or that nature, in particular economic relations, but is immanent to human existence in its specificity. In an economy that is viewed through the prism of culture, the subject is no longer a fixed agent that obeys certain objective laws. It is understood in the open historical horizon of continuous self-determination, within the framework of which standard economic goals are not something that certainly matters, but that always participates in the problematization of own meaning 6 . Returning to the question of determining the essence of the concept of “economic culture”, it should be noted that the conceptual analysis of the existing definitions allows us to conclude that this concept is distinguished by the multivariate approaches to its study. This is the result of the multifaceted nature of this phenomenon. Spiritual and material, subjective and objective, individual and social, internal and external, and so on are related in it. Relevant is the approach according to which, the cognitive, axiological and praxiological components are thought primarily in this concept. The cognitive element is a combination of knowledge and ideas that reflect various aspects of economic reality and form 6 Погребняк А. А., Расков Д. Е. Экономика как культура: возвращение к «спору о методах». Общественные науки и современность. 2013. No 2. С. 101.