CITY AND URBAN EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE DIMENSIONS OF PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Abstract

The aim of the work is to study the concepts of «city» and «urban everyday life» in the dimensions of philosophical anthropology, i.e. to reveal them through a set of relationships with man. The research methodology is the use of analytical tools of philosophical anthropology to analyze the city as a separate phenomenon: not only as an environment of the individual, but also a unique ontological entity with which the individual interacts at different levels. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the conceptualization of the city as a complexly organized and in some way expansive concept of human nature. The city in this perspective anthropologizes, acquires human-dimensional characteristics. The city (as a product of the evolution of social, cultural, political, spiritual, scientific and a number of other manifestations of human activity) and man are considered as two interconnected and complexly coordinated ontological entities. The city is categorized not only as a space of human existence and self-realization, but also as an ontological environment within which the essential features of man undergo certain aberrations under the influence of the need to constantly adapt to change, kaleidoscopic patterns of postmodern city. The city of the postmodern era is associated with the deepening of globalization, total technocracy, the dominance of the mascot and, consequently, dehumanization. Because of this, urban everyday life, within the interpretation of philosophical anthropology, is gaining more and more threatening influence on man as a spiritual, unique creation (we are talking about the loss of individuality, self, being in the circle of existential threats that characterize the essential space of the city). Conclusions. The analysis of the concepts of the city and urban everyday life in the set of connections with man realizes one of the main tasks of philosophical anthropology, which is to identify the forces and potentials through which the citizen «moves» to his essence. The study actualizes a number of problematic vectors of the general question of delineation of the city in the vision of philosophical anthropology. Each of them can become the subject of further scientific research.