THE SEMANTIC CRISIS OF MODERN TIMES AND PHILOSOPHY OF POSTMODERNISM        

Maslyanka Yuliya Vladimirovna, Assistant, sub-department of philosophy, Perm State University, ecv@yandex.ru 

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In the article the key idea of the sense of life to be the central structure of the personal identity and the condition of the personal and social development is put forward. A total crisis of contemporary civilization is studied through a crisis of the essence of human life and a collision of different moral horizons. The negative role that of the postmodernistic symbolic culture in the context of the nowadays situation way-out is in the centre of great author’s attention. 

human life essence, personal identity, values, modern society, crisis of human’s essence, postmodernism.