Drama philosophy: from notion to concept

Contemporary European society, including the Belarusian state, is forced to adapt to the life in a constant crisis. Traditional themes of the philosophy of history such as the meaning and direction of the historical development of society, the driving forces of the historical process, the ultimate goals of human development, became especially relevant in the XXI century and permeate the entire field of modern philosophical research. The philosophical analysis of drama as a concept meets the criteria of scientific novelty and significance within the urgent necessity to identify productive strategies for understanding and resolving social conflicts of local and global scales. The aim of the article is to explicate the methodological potential of drama as a concept in the modern sociocultural knowledge. Tasks: a) to analyze the prerequisites for the transdisciplinary use of dramatic terminology in the system of philosophical knowledge; b) to show the essential difference between drama concept, metaphor and notion; c) to reveal the theoretical basis of drama concept; d) to make a reconstruction of the drama model as an algorithm for the development of a conflict; e) to substantiate a dramatic approach for the study of the laws of social development. Research methods: historical and logical method, comparative analysis method, theoretical reconstruction method, systemic method. Conclusions: the transdisciplinary use of dramatic terminology became possible due to the works of E. Goffmann, K. Burke, N. Howard, V. Turner and others. The drama concept is the theoretical content of the drama notion. Unlike the metaphor, the concept can act as a system­forming element of the dramatic approach in the study of the laws of social development. Drama concept reveals its philosophical, linguistic and dramaturgic theoretical basis. Drama as an algorithm for the conflict development reflects the main conflict stages; the dramatic approach is a set of techniques (theoretical reconstruction of a drama model and dramatic conflict modelling) in the study and explanation of society united by the principle of dramatizing social reality. The dramatic approach can help to analyze orchestrated social conflicts as well as to prevent social catastrophe by identifying or modelling the social conflicts of interests.