Philosophical comprehension of the formation and development of Ukrainian culture in the context of military realities: the geopolitical aspect

Tetiana Botvyn; Maryna Aleksandrova; Liudmyla Krymets; Rufina Dobrovolska; Olga Rudenko

doi:10.34069/AI/2022.58.10.9

Tetiana Botvyn Lviv State University of Life Safety, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8590-8664
Maryna Aleksandrova Kharkiv State Academy of Culture Bursatskyi uzviz, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2722-398X
Liudmyla Krymets National Defence University of Ukraine named after Ivan Chernyakhovskyi, Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7451-5208
Rufina Dobrovolska Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky State Pedagogical University, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1414-8861
Olga Rudenko Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-2624

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2022.58.10.9

Keywords: culture, cultural identification, geopolitics, Ukrainian cultural front, history of culture, philosophy of culture.

Abstract

The article examines the impact of war on the process of development of a culture of the Ukrainian people. The purpose of scientific exploration is to analyze the existential and axiological dimensions of Ukrainian folk and national culture under conditions of war. The main objectives are to understand the geopolitical significance of Ukrainian culture in the modern socio-cultural space and to analyze the risks that war brings to the cultural development of Ukraine. The methodological basis of the research is based on general scientific methods of cultural studies: systemic, structural-functional, semiotic, and comparative-historical. In addition, synergetic methodological principles are involved, thanks to which it is possible to form a strategic view of Ukrainian culture in the geopolitical dimension. A promising short-term direction of research of contemporary Ukrainian culture is its axiological transformation, which is an inevitable process under martial law. In addition, the current Russian-Ukrainian war will be another stage in the existential assertion of the culture of the Ukrainian people. So, the war, producing inevitable suffering and destruction in all possible manifestations, simultaneously becomes a kind of border, a new point of reference that gives impetus to the development and renewal of material and spiritual culture.

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Author Biographies

Tetiana Botvyn, Lviv State University of Life Safety, Ukraine.

Ph.D., Docent Ukrainian Studies and Intercultural Communication Department, Department of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies, Lviv State University of Life Safety, Ukraine.

Maryna Aleksandrova, Kharkiv State Academy of Culture Bursatskyi uzviz, Ukraine.

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Department of Culurology, Faculty of Culturology, Kharkiv State Academy of Culture Bursatskyi uzviz, Ukraine.

Liudmyla Krymets, National Defence University of Ukraine named after Ivan Chernyakhovskyi, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ph.D., Main researcher, Senior Researcher Social Science Department, National Defence University of Ukraine named after Ivan Chernyakhovskyi, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Rufina Dobrovolska, Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky State Pedagogical University, Ukraine.

Ph.D., Assistant of the Department of Art Disciplines of Preschool and Primary Education, Faculty of Preschool and Primary Education named after V. Voloshyna, Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky State Pedagogical University, Ukraine.

Olga Rudenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Philosophy and Methodology of Sciences, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

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