DOI: 10.7256/2454-0625.2022.8.36448

Abstract: The subject of the article is the problem of the functioning of myth in the context of a dialectically constructed functional asymmetry of culture, language and thinking, where myth and science actively interact complementing each other. The purpose of the article is to consider the causes, nature and mechanism of this interaction, to identify the features of its manifestation and to show its positive sides. As a methodological support for the research, approaches and principles of non-classical science were used, allowing to move away from the classical attitudes of mythology and look at it more broadly, considering the myth not as a legend about gods and heroes, but as a cultural universal and a property of consciousness. The main conclusions of the article are reduced to understanding the importance of the perception of myth in the mode of non-classical mythology developed in the twentieth century, where myth is understood as a semantic matrix of culture responsible for the formation of a field of value meanings. This makes it possible to better understand the role of myth and myth-making in the structure of culture and consciousness, as well as to consider the epistemological resource of myth in scientific creativity, which is clearly underestimated in science, creating a complex system of cognitive dependencies resembling the interaction of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which form the necessary variety of functional capabilities of human intelligence, working on the principle of mutual complementarity.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-7144.2021.12.36401

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the problem of establishment of nonclassical mythology in the conditions of the modern epistemological crisis of myth, which is associated with stagnation in ideas and research against the background of the variety of works dedicate to folklore, anthropology, and philology. The goal of this article lies in the analysis of the factors and theoretical foundations of the formation of nonclassical mythology, as well as its practical importance for science and society. Research methodology leans on the principles and approaches of no-classical rationality that reveal the possibilities and limits of the scientific study of myth, as well as allow determining its role and meaning for science and society within the common cultural space. The scientific novelty lies in substantiation of the existence of nonclassical mythology as developed and described by the researchers. Analysis of the most interesting ideas of myth researchers indicates that nonclassical mythology was formed in the XX century, and is currently at the stage of formation of the general theory of myth. However, its further development is related to need for overcoming inertia in such spheres that view mythology in its particular manifestations, neglecting the ontology. Research of the ontology of myth will be determinative for mythology as a science, as well as allow formulating the fundamentals and problematic of the general theory of myth.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-8728.2021.12.36503

Abstract: The subject of this research is the analysis of epistemological approaches offered by nonclassical science towards the ontology of myth in the context of nonclassical mythology. Myth is viewed as a basic cultural universal, responsible for the semantic field of culture; while mythopoeia is perceived as a characteristic and important function of consciousness. The goal of this article lie in outlining the opportunities opened to the researchers of myth in the context of shift of the scientific paradigm. It is namely thanks to the scientific paradigm that mythological space of culture is no longer perceived as the antagonist of science, but as the essential aspect of its effective functionality. Methodological framework is comprised of the approaches developed and accepted in nonclassical science. Examination of myth through the prism of nonclassical science reveals new perspectives that allow studying myth as an integral whole, without separating into scientific disciplines. It should be taken into account that myth plays a significant, although not always positive role in science and society, interacting with science upon the principle of mutual complementarity. In particular, myth helps to advance and substantiate the scientific hypotheses, form scientific worldviews and images of the future. The approaches of nonclassical mythology, in turn, reveal that in the modern conditions, myth becomes the instrument of politics and the method for solving social issues, manifesting as a factor of national security and mechanism for manipulation. However, its further study requires the development of the universal theory of myth, the basic prerequisites of which have already been created.