ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMPONENT OF CONSOLIDATION PROCESSES IN POST-COLONIAL UKRAINE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the socio-cultural anthropological type, which became the actor of the historical development of Ukraine during the period of post-colonialism. The author proceeds from the standpoint that certain dominant socio-cultural anthropological type as a certain collective ideal of the person not only forms the face of the era, but also determines the prospects of the movement of society in the future direction. The relevance of this study is determined by the fact that it is the human factor that plays a decisive role in history. Anthropological component of the transformational processes in the post- Soviet space has already devoted to a lot of intelligence within the framework of Ukrainian socio-humanitarian discourse. However, the anthropological peculiarity of the post-colonial period, which Ukraine entered with gaining independence in 1991 and is still there, has not received any special attention. The article traces the distinction between a man of Ukraine and a Ukrainian person. The postcolonial age of a person of Ukraine means a whole set of prevailing socio-anthropological types that act on these areas at a particular time. On the other hand, the formation of a collective type of the Ukrainian person is analyzed. Under the Ukrainian person refers to conscious patriotic citizens of the country. At the end of the XIX – beginning. Twentieth century they were called «sincere» Ukrainians. A conclusion is drawn about the prospect of a positive development of Ukraine in the domination of the type of Ukrainian man. The study of anthropological types as social constructs of a certain age and actors in the history of individual peoples, countries, nations, and countries is devoted to many works in the structure of both Ukrainian and foreign socio-humanitaristics. To date, scientific works of such scholars as E. Fromm, H. Arendt, Y. Kristeva, N. Berdyaev, S. Žižek, J. Lipovetsky, M. Foucault, E. McKinnon and many other theorists of humanitarian science have become classical. Particular attention in the study of the anthropological characteristics of the era deserve the works of the French historical school «Annals», both as a study of the so-called «later Annals», as well as the works of the already recognized classics of this historical direction. Among the scientific developments of Ukrainian researchers, the work of representatives of the Ukrainian Diaspora, first of all, the European, Canadian and US, deserve special attention. It is worth mentioning the names of such scholars as O. Kulchytsky, E. Malanyuk, N. Hrigoryiv, I. Rybchin, M. Shlemkevich and others. A considerable amount of scientific researches of modern researchers from Ukraine is also devoted to the issue of socioanthropological type and to reveal the specificity of the existence of a certain type of Ukrainian man. The study of various aspects of this issue dedicated to works of E. Andros, E. Bystrytsky, I. Grabovsky, S. Hrabovsky, I. Dzyuba, S. Krymsky, R. Korogodsky, V. Lisnovy, I. Losev, S. Prolyev, E. Sverstiuk , V. Shamraj and many others.

 Keywords: Ukraine, post-colonial epoch, socio-anthropological type, conscious Ukrainian, «sincere» Ukrainian, sociohumanitarian discourse