Posthumanistic trends in foreign science vs culturology? Cover Image

Постгуманістичні тенденції в закордонних студіях vs культурологія?
Posthumanistic trends in foreign science vs culturology?

Author(s): Lyudmila Sergeevna Gotz
Subject(s): Modern Age, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Methodology and research technology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: cultural studies; culturology; methodology; non-anthropocentric anthropology; ontological turn; perspectivism; transhumanism; posthumanism; culture – nature; material turn; bioturn; animal turn;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to attract the attention of culturоlogists and cultural anthropologists to the possibility of reception of the problems and research lens of non-anthropocentric anthropology. In the last third of the ХХ – and early ХХІ centuries foreign non-anthropocentric anthropology has been in an active stage of conceptualization and institutionalization. And now its influence is continuing to grow. The article reveals the essence of such academic trends as anthropology without anthropocentrism, ontological turn in line with perspectivism, trans- аnd posthumanistic tendencies in the humanities, material turn, bio/animal turn, and others. The methodology within the framework of culturology and cultural studies is based on the conceptual foundations of non-anthropocentric anthropology, methods of empirical (observation, comparison), and theoretical research (abstraction, analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction), etc. The scientific novelty of the paper lies in the fact that in the Ukrainian humanities, in particular in culturology and cultural studies, an analytical review of the genesis and essence of such a research approach as nonapocentric anthropology is carried out for the first time. As far as we know, the question of the need for the reception of the research optics of neo-centric anthropology by culturology is also raised for the first time. The article contains conceptual author‘s tables also. Conclusions. The author believes that the reception of research on non-anthropocentric anthropology, the development of an appropriate conceptual apparatus, and revision of some key concepts of culturology in the light of modern scientific knowledge in a timely and promising area of research in culturology and cultural studies.