Enlightenment near the bounds of turning: metamorphosis of the Manlinesss and Feminity

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the specifics of the Russian Enlightenment on the basis of texts by M. Fedorov and is a continuation of the article "Under the Yoke of Woman: Enlightenment Dialectic of the Power of Nature and Power over Nature". The gender paradoxes of the Enlightenment consciousness are highlighted by analysing M. Turne’s text "Friday, Pacific or limb". The author concludes that the masculine, freed from everything natural, prevails over life, asserting an openly necrophilic ideal camouflaged by the idea of the search for immortality. But there is another way out – the transformation of the enlightenment paradigm, the rejection of the yoke of power, merging with Nature and ascending to the cosmic sex (germination through the triumphant Femininity or Masculinity in accordance with male or female androgyny). Cosmic sex is polysex.