Civilizational Project as Subject of Research: Logic of Meanings and Optics of Analysis

The super-powerful polysemy of discourse about civilization is seen not as a defect in language and speech, but as an objective, irreducible characterization of the subject itself and the discourse about it. This excludes the possibility of universal or consolidated definitions. The solution is offered in a special kind of semantic empathy — in the acceptance of the discourse about civilization in the presumption of its fullness, in the meaningful intuitions of understanding. The principle of "civilizational multiplicity" or "civilization of civilizations" leads to the ideas of the multiplicity of civilizational projects, including the need to understand the Russian project of civilizational development as a "project of projects", that is, not only a mega-, but also a meta-project. Modern times are seen as "times of projects" with corresponding outlets in the problems of postmodernity, postmodern, and postmodernism. The temporal contradictions of the project, the paradoxes of dynamics and statics are considered. Is a project a future in the present and/or a present in the future? The ontological duality of the project is similar: process and thing, life and product, plan and embodiment. The discourse on civilization is considered as a systemic object. Reconstruction of the common problem-thematic space is carried out by the method of contour mapping. The isomorphism of historical time and space of analysis is substantiated: a picture as an image and as a motion picture, as a sequence of frames. A reverse perspective technique is introduced — reverse research and retro analysis, in which the genesis is supplemented by "autopsy" techniques