Resources of civilization – definition and typology

Abstract

This paper strives to explain the process and mechanisms of overcoming civilization crises. It is shown that the key resources necessary for such overcoming are the creative potential of a man and the ‘civilization asset/resource’. I offer a classification of such asset/resource (type of economy, value systems, scientific knowledge, religious practices) and show how they relate to social and material needs of people. The attention is given to such problem as the crisis of the modern creative culture arising out of the fact that creative writing, painting etc. etc. are becoming a mass phenomenon, that human existence is being primitively rationalized and that social processes becoming totalitarized. A transition from Modernism to Post-Modernism and further on to the network culture comes along with the aggravation of these crisis phenomena, while no radical solution to the crisis in the form of an adequate civilization resource has been worked by the humankind out neither globally nor locally.