Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The article is based on the report presented at the methodological seminar devoted to theoretical and methodological principles of modern Ukrainian studies. In the context of finding a convincing answer to the question of the specifics of Ukrainian studies as a scientific discipline, the paper examines the experience of a number of foreign and domestic scholars treating the problems of self-identification of contemporary nations within the framework of a civilizational approach to the histories of their own countries and through the prism of the so-called nation-specific disciplines. In particular, the significant interest in this sense is constituted by works of such foreign scholars as M. Lerner (USA), F. Broudel (France), M. de Unamuno (Spain), M. Shapovalov (Russia), I. Sarakavik (Belarus), as well as a number of representatives of the Ukrainian science (P. Kononenko, V. Krysachenko, O. Mostiaev, L. Tokar, etc.), who, in their theoretical and methodological works, laid the foundations for modern scientific Ukrainian studies. The author of the article believes that the establishment of the modern Ukrainian studies in the late 20th – early 21st century, due to the specifics of ethnocultural processes in this period and the need for self-knowledge of the Ukrainian nation, manifested itself in the specific form of “intellectual mobilization”. Thus, this process took place in line with global scientific tendencies, namely through the prism of synthetic nation-specific sciences and may qualify as the beginning of a qualitatively new stage in the formation of Ukrainian studies as a scientific discipline.
Source: Ukrainian Studies
Author: Serhii Nalyvaiko
Institution: Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2952861998