Ukraine’s civilizational offer to the world. Ideas of the noosphere and cosmic worldview in Ukrainian art of the XX–XXI centuries

Abstract

The war in Ukraine, which is unfolding against the background of unprecedented and threatening climate changes, a colossal economic crisis and the escalation of tension between the “big players”, has caused new systemic challenges for our country and the world. We must look for extraordinary answers and offer unusual solutions, because traditional and outdated will not be able to solve anything. How to avoid a lifelong confrontation with Russia once and for all? What is the most important civilizational offer of Ukraine to the world? What can be a guarantee of a happy future for our country? Reflecting on these important questions, we offer an unexpected solution — a decisive turn and social movement towards noospheric-cosmic consciousness. This kind of thinking has long been inherent in the natural self-awareness of the inhabitants of Ukraine, and even the very theory of the noosphere was developed by the Ukrainian scientist Volodymyr Vernadskyi. How are these ideas intuitively reflected in Ukrainian art since the beginning of the 20th century? It is proposed to outline the main principles and approaches and some conceptual essays about approx.