Malinkin A.N. Bibliophilism: a philosophical-anthropological approach. In: Bibliophils of Russia. Almanac. Vol. XX. M.: Favorite Russia, 2025. P. 9-22.

Abstract

The article notes that bibliophiles' discussions about the proper approach to understanding the essence of bibliophilia as a type of collecting activity are dominated by the opposition between the "scientific approach" and the "activity-based" approach. The author argues that this opposition is not entirely accurate and vulnerable to criticism, since scientific methodology does not exclude a person's activity-based relationship to the world, but rather is predicated on it. Therefore, it would be more accurate to use the terminological opposition between the "scientific approach" and the "philosophical-anthropological approach."

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