Artistic Culture After the War: An Analytical Sketch

. With the onset of the final stage of the Russo-Ukrainian war, the artistic culture of Ukraine focuses more objectively on prognosticating the trajectories of the country’s post-war development, focusing its main attention on the socio-political and related socio-cultural aspects. Since futurological projections require meticulous learning of the lessons of the historical past, the authors, using comparative method, study a range of problems that already require an adequate reflection of society, in particular by the national artistic culture. These challenges include, among others: overcoming the flaws of the outdated ideologies of postpolitics and posthumanism, which accelerated the catastrophic regression of postmodern consciousness; actualization of the archetypal pattern of cordocentrism; transformation of the traumatic “culture of fear” into a sophisticated culture of aesthetic judgment, where the transcendent truth of beauty serves as a measure of how civilized a nation is, whose self-identification stabilizes sociopolitical existence, including the formation of a “democracy of feelings.”