Keywords
worldview basis
artistic generation
democracy
resistance movement
dissidents
hermeticism
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Abstract
The philosophy of the resistance movement in Ukraine in the second half of the twentieth century is an important component of understanding the historical, cultural, and social transformations that took place in society. The Ukrainian dissident movement, which manifested itself in literature, philosophy, and art, formed a unique worldview for generations that fought for national identity and civil liberties. The study of these processes is relevant not only for understanding the historical aspects of the Ukrainian resistance, but also for assessing its impact on contemporary social and cultural processes. The purpose of this study is to analyze the philosophical foundations of the resistance and dissident movements in Ukraine in the second half of the twentieth century, to determine their worldview specifics, stylistic features of their work, and mechanisms of cultural resistance to the Soviet regime. Making an attempt to define and characterize the philosophical basis of the movement of resistance, dissidence in the second half of the 20th century in Ukraine, we must take into account the concept of style, individual manner of creativity, first of all, it is worth carrying out, so to speak, the internal periodization of the event of the thawing. The first publications of the works of Ukrainian post-Soviet authors, who belonged to several generations, were carried out at the end of the 60s. These were attempts to capture humanity, love and beauty, youth, they belong to the "curtain" of the thaw, marked by maximalism and romanticism, which in modified models, under a certain correction of social injustice, accompanied the worldview models of the works of Ukrainian authors of the 80s. The canon for the author of the Otligiv type is the rhythmic form, the favorite cross-rhyming is decanonized, there are few verlibres – because freedom was not accepted in its absolute. There was little room, quite obviously, for the reaction and freezes in the late 60s and until the end of the 80s of the 20th century, the silencing of many authors who moved from the movement of resistance to the hidden to the open, became dissidents, as well as periodic reluctance of any artificial sub-Soviet type of information as a result of relatively frequent changes of residence, reassessment of values, distrust in people and certain social ideals, and persecution by the NKVD / KGB.
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