Savel'yeva Y. Family As a Philosophical Problem: the Experience of Deconstruction

For the first time in Ukrainian social philosophy there was provided social-philosophical analysis of family thereby experience of deconstruction. Deconstruction in this case allows understanding of family by creating a new context - polyphony of specific scientific, religious and normative discourses of postmodern epoch. As consequences there was designed sense environment, where new knowledge about family can be born. This knowledge can be extended to a postmodern social life in general. Deconstruction of logical-epistemological and methodological analysis of family definition revealed a problem of discourse of power, which defines the approaches in family investigation and its understanding. There were deconstructed concepts of family origin and development in its retrospective thereby focuses on public and private spheres of human being life. Explicated the definitions of "Family of postmodern epoch" and "Postmodernistic family" as the most coherent to current context of contemporary social and philosophical discourse. There was made a social-philosophical analysis of postmodernistic family in the context of globalization trends. The social-philosophical analysis of family was conducted thereby deconstruction of family metaphors. Family metaphors analyzed as system of associations, a set of statements about family, considered as true. Deconstruction of family metaphors discovered features of learning, structuring, explanations and creation of family. There was analyzed network model of family relations in modern society. It was revealed, that organization of family relationships and network essence of the modern world have a close relationship.