The Universe as an Aesthetic Symbolism of Postmodernity

Authors

  • Serhii Kostiuchkov Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine
  • Iryna Shaposhnykova Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine
  • Yulia Yurina Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine
  • Anatolii Forostian Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine
  • Serhii Kuznetsov Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18662/po/13.1Sup1/423

Keywords:

Universe, Cosmos, human, living matter, values, chaos, symbol, macrocosm

Abstract

The article reveals the philosophical, worldview, aesthetically-axiological aspects of considering the universe as a symbolic phenomenon of the postmodern era. It is emphasized that the analysis of beauty, as the basic category of aesthetics, needs to find out its aggregate nature, depending on the individual and social semantic characteristics of reality. One of the key points of such an analysis is its metaphysical problematic – the direct emergence of constructive emotion into the realm of the transcendental, namely, the view of Man from the Universe from the standpoint of eternity. The timeliness and necessity of considering the problem of the symbolic context of the universe is obvious in the context of the third millennium, the realities of which call into question the very fact of conservation of wildlife on Earth. In the minds of assimilating the finality of the earthly boot, its primarity of progressive stochasticity, in the midst of the amplification of the eschatological context, the people of the era of postmodernity are demonstrating the development of the fastflowing, hardened nonsense. In the philosophical tradition, the symbol is the role of a pure "selfness", not tied to the powerful moment of the object: the symbolic picture does not reflect reality, as it is - the symbol of knowing the "refair" in the sphere of the virtual. It is proved that for the modern man the Universe is the object of not only scientific, technological, but also philosophical, cultural studies, it synthesizes for the unity of the object of scientific interest, a symbol of aesthetic pleasure and a source of formation of appropriate images and archetypes.

Author Biographies

Serhii Kostiuchkov, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor of Department of Social Work, Social Pedagogy and Sociology, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

Iryna Shaposhnykova, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, dean of the Faculty of Psychology, History and Sociology, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

Yulia Yurina, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Social Communications, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

Anatolii Forostian, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of Department of Culturology, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

Serhii Kuznetsov, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

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Published

2022-03-14

How to Cite

Kostiuchkov, S., Shaposhnykova, I., Yurina, Y. ., Forostian, A. ., & Kuznetsov, S. . (2022). The Universe as an Aesthetic Symbolism of Postmodernity. Postmodern Openings, 13(1 Sup1), 216-228. https://doi.org/10.18662/po/13.1Sup1/423

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Theoretical articles