Yuriy M. F., Alexievets L. M., Kalakura Ya. S., Udod O. A. Ukraine of the oldest time-XVIII century: civilizational context of Cognition. - Ternopil: Aston, 2012. - Book I.-700 P. The radical changes that the methodology of Ukrainian historiography has undergone since the independence of Ukraine include an increasingly noticeable transition from a formative to a civilizational interpretation of the historical process. This approach allows us to create a more holistic knowledge of the history of Ukraine as a component of European and world civilization, to focus not so much on socio-economic and political aspects, but on cultural and spiritual values. The research team consists of Yu. V. Pavlenko 1, M. E. Gorelov, A. P. Motsi, A. A. Rafalsky 2, V. E. Goncharevsky 3, and others. the first book of the large project "Ukraine: the Civilizational context of Cognition" by M. F. Yuriy, L. M. Alexievets, Y. S. Kalakura and A. A. Udod was published, which covers an extremely wide chronological layer of Ukrainian history-from the earliest times to the XVIII century inclusive. The authors set themselves a rather ambitious goal: to systematically and comprehensively describe the origins, origin and most important stages of the cognitive activity of the Ukrainian people in the context of a civilizational understanding of their ethnogenesis, the formation of the Ukrainian nation, the struggle for freedom, independence and their own state. The emphasis is placed on clarifying the place and role of culture and spirituality in the history of Ukraine and the world as a key component of the civilizational understanding of the historical process, the uniqueness of Ukrainian civilization due to the crosshairs of East and West. Realizing this goal, they drew on a wide range of concrete historical and historiographical sources, modern research methods, and suggested an original structure of the work. The book has a summative and systematic character, it is prepared as an interdisciplinary ... Читать далее