THE IDEA OF ANTHROPOCENTRISM IN A. BELYAEV’S SCIENCE FICTION

Abstract

The article examines the idea of anthropocentrism in the science fiction of A. Belyaev. The aim of the study is to analyse the anthropocentric thinking implicit in Belyaev’s work in terms of human imagination, interspecies differences in biology and technogenic catastrophe, as well as to rethink the social and historical aspects underlying science fiction literature. The main objective of the study is to provide a new perspective for the study of science fiction literature and to re-explore the value of human beings in literature through the study of science fiction works. To address the objectives, this paper intends to systematically examine the discursive representation, historical transmutation and underlying cultural motifs of anthropocentrism in Belyaev’s work from the above three perspectives in the light of specific texts from the perspective of literary anthropology.