Zaliznyak Y. Ethical intellectualism in the publisistic writing of Ivan Dziuba and Vaclav Gavel

The dissertation is devoted to complex research of the ethical intellectual component in Ivan Dziuba's and Vaclav Gavel's publisistic writing based on the comparative analysis of their works. The author reveals the essence of the ethical intellectualism as a world view method of the two prominent publicists, whose writings have not been examined until now from such angle. Ivan Dziuba's and Vaclav Gavel's ethical intellectualism turns out to have deep national and Christian roots, which leans against the confession of truth and as a main criterion of the qualities of human being's existence, people and state. The direct connection of the explored publisistic writings with the social historical features of Ukrainian and Chekh people development in totalitarian times has been observed there. Their texts substantially influenced the formation of new type of mentality and consciousness in their compatriots and representatives of other nations. Particular attention has been paid to the analysis of publisistic criticism of the new post-communistic world order, which Ivan Dziuba and Vaclav Gavel calls neo-totalitarianism.