Bol"shoy stil" – eto ne tol"ko masshtabnost" vospriyatiya, no, prezhde vsego, masshtabnost" tselogo kompleksa idey, opredelivshikh soboy razvitie kul"tury i iskusstva v SSSR i Germanii v 30-50-e gg. KhKh veka. Na osnove filosofskogo analiza trebovaniy, pred"yavlyaemykh k esteticheskoy sfere, sravneniya naibolee znachimykh proektov – kak osushchestvlyennykh, tak i neosushchestvlyennykh, – avtor raskryvaet ontologicheskie predposylki dvukh kul"turnykh modeley. Imenno ontologiya yavlyaetsya kriteriem ponimaniya prichin ikh vneshnego skhodstva i vnutrennego razlichiya. Kniga prednaznachena dlya filosofov, kul"turologov, istorikov arkhitektury, vsekh interesuyushchikhsya problemami kul"tury.