L. Е. Tokatova
tokatoval@mail.ru
Pavlodar Pedagogical University, Pavlodar, Republic of Kazakhstan
Moral responsibility lesson (dedicated to Naum Grigoryvich Shafer)
Abstract: Naum Grigoryevich Shafer is a Kazakh scientist, educator, musicologist, writer, composer, critic and collector. Scientific and educational legacy of Professor N.G. Schafer is very diverse: in literary criticism, the main topics of his research are Bruno Yasensky and M. A. Bulgakov, in musicology – I. O. Dunaevsky, in literature N.G. Schafer is known as an author of novels and essays, in music – as an author and compiler; professional theatrical, literary and musical life of the country and his native city was comprehended by him critically, philophony; a rather rare field of collecting made his name known in the world. The research works of N. G. Shafer are relevant in the broadest sense, because the extent of his knowledge, multiplied by his beliefs about the high purpose of humanism, philology, to which he devoted his life, radiates sincere love for a person, delights with the image of his beautiful sides and exposes oblivion, callousness, alienation and indifference of society, the damage caused by it to human nature. Not only scientific genres are close to the scientist, he is fluent in different styles and has written journalistic, memoir, art essays, theatrical, musical, literary and film reviews, notes, letters, reviews, obituaries, sketches about poetry, several articles and books in the form of memoirs and reflections. His researcher’s world is not the sum of abstract knowledge; it is not the dominance of theory over knowledge, but the energy of knowledge itself, imprinted in everything that surrounds it.
Keywords: N. G. Shafer, literary criticism, composer, criticism, philology, humanism, academic course, Pedagogical University.
Paper submitted: February 25, 2022.
For citation: Tokatova L. Е. (2022) Moral responsibility lesson (dedicated to Naum Grigoryvich Shafer). Russian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 48-56. DOI: 10.57015/issn1998-5320.2022.16.3.5.
