Nationosophical Type of Hermeneutic Thinking in the Essays of Yevhen Malaniuk: Propae-deutic Aspects

Abstract

Some important propaedeutic aspects of the analysis of the national philosophical interpretation (“national approach”) in the essays of one of the prominent representatives of the vistnykivska tradition Yevhen Malaniuk are considered in the article. On the basis of the previous hermeneutic generalization and definition of national-existential methodology, a propaedeutic outlining of the necessary epistemological thesaurus is proposed, which determines the possibility of comprehending the essence and structure of the author’s “national approach” that is a national philosophical type of interpretation in the essays of Ye. Malaniuk. It is confirmed that the diverse and versatile publicistic and scientific works of Ye. Malaniuk (literary-critical, cultural, political, historical, philosophical, nation-logical, etc.) is cultural and philosophical in its thematic horizons. In ideological and aesthetic plan, it is rooted in the ideology of volitional nationalism and the national philosophical theory of art (“Shevchenko’s aesthetics”). In a methodological sense, the writer’s essays emerge as a “national approach” (or method) structured by national imperative and can be considered as one of the invariants (alongside the experiences of D. Dontsov, Yu. Lypa, M.Mukhyn, etc.) of vistnykivska national philosophical (or national-centric) hermeneutics.