Kharkiv Research School in Ukrainian Philosophy of Soviet Period: Social, Political and Philosophical Researches

by Nataliia Yarmolitska¹ and Katherine Gan^2
1 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
² Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/up/7/11
Received: 1 October 2020 / Accepted: 12 November 2020 / Published: 3 December 2020

The article analyzes the key points and expresses the future perspectives of socio-political and historical-philosophical researches of Kharkiv Research School of the Soviet period. The main emphasis is on current issues of research of Kharkiv philosophical tradition in the ’60s-’80s of the 20th century. An attempt was made to outline the problems and clarify the specifics of Kharkiv Research School of this period to reproduce a holistic picture of the development of Ukrainian philosophy of the Soviet period. For this purpose, the peculiarities of the explication of socio-political, socio-cultural, sociopractical, and philosophical-anthropological issues, which took place in Soviet philosophical thought in the conditions of the dominance of dialectical and historical materialism as a scientific paradigm, were studied. Key points in the research of Kharkiv scholars who tried to move away from the theoretical and methodological doctrine of Marxism-Leninism, contrasting their development of philosophical problems in science, epistemology, and methodological issues of scientific knowledge, ethical and sociological issues, were traced.

Keywords: Kharkiv Research School, Marxist-Leninist Philosophy, Dialectical Materialism, Historical Materialism, Ideology, Ukrainian Philosophy of the Soviet Era

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