To the Problem of Critical Reflection, or Akim Volynsky on The Problem of Philosophy of The World

The article analyses Akim Volynsky's system of value orientations. The article focuses on a number of paradoxical judgements of the critic due to the contradictory nature of his worldview and the incompleteness of his critical system as a whole. The aim of the article is to examine the critic's polemical concepts reflected in his assessments of literary criticism of the 1960s and decadence. The subject of the article are articles, critical essays, correspondence materials of Akim Volynsky, the object is his system of value orientations. The novelty and relevance of the article lies in the fact that Akim Volynsky as an art theorist and critic is one of the contradictory figures of the late 19th - early 20th century, therefore, his works, directly derived from his ontological orientations, deserve a more objective study. Phenomenological, historical-typological, structural methods, as well as the method of content analysis were used in the analysis.