KUDRYa I. Present-day Conceptions of the Post-Capitalist Society: Social and Philosophical Analysis.

The thesis is devoted to social and philosophical study of up-to-date conceptions of post-capitalist society in the context of a global paradigm. In this work there is made a critical reconstruction of advanced ideas of the founders of the post-industrial paradigm - from D. Bell and O. Toffler up to P. Dracker and M. Castells, which founded the application in the newest philosophic, culturological and sociological conceptions. The author, providing a broad panorama of post-capitalist orientations, focuses on the their analysis, that allows to consider both general background of a qualitatively new cultural and historical type, especially its globality, and specific informational and network content of the post-capitalism. In this thesis the author reveals genesis, particular qualities and prospects of the development of a new wave of the post-industrial paradigm on the basis of the assertion of axiological and global approaches, transition from technoscientism to perceprion of the importanceof cultural and value-based factors, the role and significance of globalization in modernization processes in post-soviet space, in particular, in Ukraine.