GORDEVS'KYJ D. Deviative Thought as a Factor of Cultural Dynamics

The dissertation is devoted to make a cultural analysis of cultural dynamics as a process of changing value orientations. The role of deviative thought and it's concrete types was studied, the anthropological and philosophical analysis of concrete cultural "explosives", of evolution and diffusion processes in European culture during two millenniums was proposed. In dissertation work was proved the existence of basic types (patterns) of deviative thought, that are invariants toward concrete cultural and historical epochs and that lay in the ground of different innovational and social processes.