Personal Dimensions of the Kyiv Philosophical School and its Images through the Voices of Memory
Personal Dimensions of the Kyiv Philosophical School and its Images through the Voices of Memory

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the history of the Kyiv philosophical school of the second half of the twentieth century as one of the main and topical objects of the historical and philosophical study of the formation of a modern national Ukrainian philosophical tradition. An extensive and often controversial set of scientific and non-scientific definitions and characteristics suggests the need to study this phenomenon both as a scientific and socio-cultural one using little-studied primary sources. The initial generalizing examination of a significant part of the memoirs of the creators of mentioned school, mainly a series of autobiographical reconstructions of Academicians S. Krymskyi, V. Horskyi, M. Popovych, realized in T.Chaika’s project “The Philosophers’ Oral Histories” as the actual approach in the branch of history of the recent Ukrainian philosophy, allows admitting this school the main center of the revival of interrupted by the Stalinist repressions in the 1930s institutional philosophizing at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. The studied inflorescence of their personal visions of the Kyiv philosophical school,like a number of original biographical reconstructions of some their colleagues, gives a foundation to estimate this school as an exceptional phenomenon in the history of domestic philosophy, namely the leading ideological and organizational academic-institute capital’s center-school of institutionalization of the Ukrainian philosophic tradition as a national one in Ukraine in the second half of the twentieth —the first decades of this century.

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