Kozyreva N. The culture of laughter in M. Khvylyovyi's creative work: philosophical and anthropological analysis

The objective of the study is the humorous culture in the Ukrainian literature as the philosophical and anthropological phenomenon; the goal is the revelation and justification of philosophical and anthropological foundations of originality of humorous culture of Mykola Khvylovy's comic prose as a holistic phenomenon with specific features and internal connections based on the explication of different forms and types of modifications of comic issue; the methods are the following: phenomenological, dialectical, hermeneutical, anthropological interpretation, anthropological reduction, structural and functional analysis, unity of logical and historical, structural and typological, induction, deduction; the novelty is the complex analysis of Mykola Khvylovy's prose heritage through the prism of comedy category by conducting a holistic, systematic research of the humorous culture in his prose in the context of "romance of vitaism"; the results – the expansion of problematic field of philosophical anthropology and philosophy of culture are the contribution to a rethinking of European anthropological turnround in philosophy and literature; the thesis can be used in teaching philosophical anthropology, cultural studies, and history of the Ukrainian literature; the field is the philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture.