Суб’єктивація versus масовізація українського соціуму
Subjectivation Versus Massization of Ukrainian Society

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the transformation in modern Ukraine in specific manifestations of their specificity, namely – the subjectivation and massization of Ukrainian society. In analysing this problem, parallels are drawn with theconclusions of already developed concepts and ideas of foreign and Ukrai-nian philosophers. In the modern civilized world, according to the world-famous scientist F. Fukuyama, there are two mutually exclusive processesdependent primarily on Western civilization. One of them is the defragmen-tation of communities by group identities: professional, age, religious, sexual,etc. Such a mosaic of community leads to the disappearance of unity in thecountry, the growth of mutual claims, misunderstandings and conflicts, theindividuation of members of society to the existence of atomised individualswho lose touch with their social environment. On the other hand, there isa process of identifying the mass of people as social beings with more pow-erful groups, primarily nations, which leads to mutual claims at the interna-tional level and threats of authoritarianism and destruction of democracies incertain countries, especially those that have entered the modernisation pro-cess. And yet F. Fukuyama believes that understanding is possible. It is worthlooking for and finding a reasonable compromise that leads to consensus.According to the author of this intelligence, such a process can be tentativelydescribed as the formation of “liberal nationalism”. The article concludes thatstrengthening the subjectivity of modern Ukraine is a necessary conditionfor its self-affirmation as an independent state – a self-sufficient actor inthe historical arena. One of the main directions in the development of subjectivation is the demassization and demassification of post-Soviet society,overcoming all signs of its postcolonialism.

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