The Culture at the Beginning of the New Millennium From the Perspective of „the Survivor”: a Fundamental Break in the Secret Code of Aesthetics. Ukrainian Experience
Year: 2020
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Global transformations in the modern world are affected by processes that take place in the post-Soviet space because they have formed a unique type of culture, which researchers define as a product of trauma caused by the long internal colonization of the people mentality.At the turn of the XX -XXI centuries, like other boundary situations in the history of society, the perception of the past is sharpening, and the XX century, especially its last decades, is perceived as not only the end of the century but of the entire historical epoch, in fact, of all modern times.This situation actualizes the recollections and comparisons with the beginning of new milestones in the history of mankind, especially the views, concepts of famous thinkers, scientists, artists who felt the dynamic of the historical process.It is not about the echo of times, not in a chronological sense.Obviously, in our time it is worth resorting to the verification of some beliefs views, concepts, theories, to compare them with the present reality, because some of them, having flourished, denied, even forgotten, become relevant again.One of these is the concept of catharsis, which was substantiated in ancient aesthetics.It was organically incorporated not only into the scientific circulation but also widely used to characterize the everyday life realities of modern society, influencing the criteria for the evaluation of art.These issues are especially relevant in scientific research with the beginning of the active development of society in the periods of post-: post-industrial, postmodern, post-historical... ___________________ * "The survivor" -Eng.-"a person who survived", "victim".
Author: Tetiana Humeniuk
Institution: Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W3016980110