Geiko S. The category of irony as cultural universal term: philosophical analysis.

The dissertation is devoted to philosophical research of irony category, which is proposed to review as cultural context figure, representing the substitution of existing sense by hidden one, and fixing the interruption of common perception or communication and intention to sense creation renewal. The transformation of sense in different cultural paradigms allows revealing of such fundamental features of ironical discourse as reflectivity, contrariety, axiologity. The holistic historical and cultural understanding of irony, as human conscience position and human being existential, which indicates to possibility of its' further establishment, is proposed into dissertation.