Pulina V. Aesthetic positions in cultural creativity of Panteleymon Kulish.

The dissertation contains the reconstruction of aesthetic positions of P.Kulish cultural creativity. The sources of his aesthetic outlook orientations are discovered. On the basis of content-analysis the explication and systematisation of the writer's aesthetic thesaurus is fulfilled. With the help of comparative method the common features and the differences of aesthetic positions of P. Kulish and West-European, Ukrainian and Russian thinkers are defined. The outlook and aesthetic context of P. Kulish creative activity in cultural sphere (enlightenment and romanticism) is distinguished. The art - aesthetic discourse of P. Kulish is analysed through disclosing of romantic images and motives of literature activity of the writer, theoretical problematic of his art activity. The insurance of P.Kulish in aesthetic value of national language, its conducting role in Ukrainian cultural-creation processes is proved.