This analysis reveals the opposing forces of asceticism and humanism in culture, suggesting a fundamental tension within human existence.
The author proposes to examine a culture space as principally dual and composed of antagonistic opposition of ascetic and humanistic types. That dualism of culture is discovered through fundamental dualism of man itself, simultaneously belonged both to the world of nature, necessity and to the world of freedom, transcendental world.
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Vladimir N. Belov (2008) studied this question.
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