Pogribna V. Postmodernism as a discourse of modern philosophy (social and philosophical analysis).

The object is postmodernism discourse as one of important factors of understanding the modern social philosophy. The aim is to study the specific of postmodernism discourse, its becoming and development, social-cultural conditionality. The methods are systems approach; dialectical, fenomenological, hermeneutical, structural. The specific of postmodernism methodology reflecting the modern bases of civilized existence and development of society and forming the special type of consciousness are defined. The semantic fields of given discourse that create the structure of postmodernism consciousness are determined. The origin, formation and further development of postmodernism discourse are investigated. The basic interpretations of this phenomenon are considered. Entire conception of postmodernism discourse is realized. For the analysis of situation in modern social philosophy in general importance and role of the postmodernism phenomenon are defined. Application sphere is the training courses.