Utopia: the political aesthetics of Paul Ricoeur

MARXIAN CONCEPTS OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE HERMENEUTICS

The aim of the paper is to draw attention to the question of ultimate meanings in literary studies and its utilization for the sake of betterment of society. It starts with a view on how societies interpret their cultural products through Marxism, but not only pure Marxism but its combination with psychoanalysis, espec...

PLAYING WITHOUT ETHICAL DEBT, OR HOW AESTHETICS GRADUALLY FORGOT ABOUT PRACTICE

ARTS, CULTURAL STUDIES AND ETHNOGRAPHY

Religion and alienation: towards posing of the probleme

In the philosophy of religion, the theme of alienation is used rather narrowly, mainly in connection with its sociocentric interpretations, as well as in the context of German classical idealism and materialism. In fact, it turns out that the phenomena behind alienation theories are fundamental and quite universal in t...

Renaissance “Bridges” of the Neo-Marxist Romanticist

The author describes some aspects of the socio-political atmosphere, everyday life, and mentality of Ukrainians in the second half of the 20th century from a hermeneutic perspective. Based on this description, an interpretation of the axiological dimension of Volodymyr Shynkaruk’s (founder of the Kyiv anthropological s...

The Phenomenon of Transgression in the Context of Aesthetic Experience

The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of transgression in the context of aesthetic experience. Due to the mass distribution of raffishing and shocking works of art, the issue of finding the right methodologi-cal guidelines that serve to adequately analyze transgressive elements in modern artistic practi...