Bohun K. The cultural introductions of phobias: philosophical-anthropological analysis

The object is phobia in their multiple cultural representations; the purpose is disclosure of the specifics of cultural introductions of phobia on the basis of cultural and anthropological analysis of their self-representations in the field of culture; the novelty comprises cultural and anthropological conceptualization of the phenomenon of phobias in the diversity of their representations, which coexist with anti-phobic meanings in modern socio-cultural contexts; methods are the following: post-structuralist, hermeneutic explication, dialectical, logical-historical analysis; the results – it was justified the methodological feasibility of the use of the author's concept of "cultural introductions of phobias" in the descriptions of the complex process of interaction of cultural practices of handling phobias; it was revealed the cultural and anthropological basis of ambivalent interpretations of the phenomena of fear and horror in the philosophy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the research materials can be used in preparing and reading normative courses in philosophy, cultural studies, ethics and aesthetics, religious studies; the field is the philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture.