Taras Shevchenko’s Ideologic Maxims of in the Perception of Dmytro Dontsov

Abstract

The study analyzes D. Dontsov's deep interest in Ukrainian history, in particular Cossacks’ and the Hetmans’ times, and his search for ideas that are basic for the life of the state. One of the defining aspects of argumentation in Dontsov's texts are the individualі in whose views he found worldview kinship or saw complete incompatibility. The basis for the creation of D. Dontsov’s ideological guidelines is Taras Shevchenko personage. It is proved that the linguistic and political worldview of Dontsov's linguoperson is an ideological continuation of T. Shevchenko's thoughts. The article offers the following interpretation of the term “maxim”: an individual speech symbol, used mostly with a positive connotation, which the author presents as an ideological dominant. For example, the maxim ‘truth’ is important for building an independent state, the maxim ‘faith’ is a source of spirituality, the maxim ‘strength’ is revealed as an expression of the Cossack heroic past. It is important that T. Shevchenko and D. Dontsov advocate the worldview of struggle, and the maxim of ‘love’ is inextricably linked with Ukraine. It has been shown that both thinkers form a national spirit and inspire faith in God's providence. It is established that the figure of Shevchenko is the core for the formation of the D. Dontsov’s individual-authorial worldview. The urgency of Taras Shevchenko's ideological maxims through the prism of Dontsov's linguoperson makes it possible to learn from our history. On the basis of D. Dontsov's vivid journalism is reproduced the socio-political and cultural-historical background of the epoch, and the nation-building ideas on which the he relied in his culturological and national-philosophical works are shown.