Open AccessThe Spiritual-Conservative Phenomenon of Gregory Skovoroda and the Reality of the Ukrainian Neo-Baroque in the Context of the Revival of Christian Individuality
Author(s) -
Pavlo Yamchuk
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/2005.34.1587
Subject(s) - phenomenon , ukrainian , baroque , parallels , context (archaeology) , capital (architecture) , the renaissance , history , classics , aesthetics , sociology , art , art history , philosophy , ancient history , epistemology , archaeology , mechanical engineering , engineering , linguistics
To start thinking about the Gregory Skovoroda phenomenon and its promising interconnectedness with the culture of the hoped for, we want from a series of somewhat unexpected considerations and parallels that we hope will reflect both the subject matter itself and the prospects for the future. It is well-known that Kharkov entered the modern history of Ukraine as the “second capital of our statehood, as the capital of constructivist modern Ukraine of the 1920s, which, and this is often forgotten, favoring Kyiv and the West of Ukraine, became the birthplace and epicenter of a powerful national-cultural movement Ukrainianization. It was in Kharkov that a unique aesthetic phenomenon was born and flourished - literature and art of the firing Renaissance.