Chastakova N. The Literary-Critical and Cultural Conceptions of the Scientific Creativity by Ivan Dziuba.

The dissertation is devoted to the complex research of I. Dzuba’s scholar papers, such as cultural, historical and literary, literary-critical aspects. Scientist's philosophical ideals are studied as the basis of his methodological principles. The ideals maxims of sixties, – the nation, the freedom, the truth, the man, – are analyzed from the point of relationship I. Dziuba’s papers with achievements of Renaissance and Enlightenment. The concept of culture as a whole is studied in the research. The critical papers of the scholar are comprehended in terms of his dynamics, particularly in shaping of the concept of a hero and in the studies about the Sixties, where ideological dominants are the means of comprehension of his generation through ethical maxims. In this research the author proved, that the spirit is a dominant feature of the I. Dziuba’s papers. That is why his researches about T. Shevchenko, literary portraits, studies about literature of neighboring countries are the search of other in the genre of spiritual biography. Therefore, I. Dzuba is understood as an elitist figure in the Ukrainian cultural space of the second half of the XX – the beginning of the XXI centuries.