Late Wittgenstein by C. Geertz: ‘Thick Description’ as Anthropological Concept and Anthropologist’s Home Dwelling

С. Geertz’s paying attention to the fact that late Wittgenstein’s network of concepts and images was always a guide for perfecting expression of his ideas. This allowed for exploring, in a new way, the sign of understanding an alien culture through returning to a man a feeling of friction under their feet. This mage of connecting to the everyday life of an alien culture has led C. Geertz to creating images of ethnographer’s everyday life in a “thick description” against a background of vivid images of “living a literary criticism” described by R. Wellek and A. Warren.With the very background of contemporary criticism’s expressive motives of excluding the studies in history of literature, which risked turning critics into antiquarians, and an imagined student’s cunning suggestion on accepting cryptographer’s operations as an equivalent of recognizing alien types of symbolic writing in a poet’s imagination, C. Geertz created an image of an ethnographer’s daily life in a form of “thick description.” This implies a non-mirrored similarity to reading a manuscript and criticizes the attempts to replace the interpretation of cultures to deсoding.C. Geertz’s appeal to K. Burke’s summing up of an ideal model of the strategy of transforming a literary description of an imaginary event into a description of the imaginary actions of the participants of this event under the name ‘Bovary’ emphasized the presence of only really existing events and actions in the descriptions of the old time cultures.However, C. Geertz’s appeal to S. Langer’s description of the influence of the “grande idée” on the development of sciences provoked the appearance of the most extensive description of the features of the presence of “rich description” in theoretical generalizations, which also contained instructions for protection against the seduction of “rich description” by ideas of this kind.