Mishchenko N. Mass culture as a subject of philosophical analysis

The dissertation is a theoretical study of the phenomenon of the XXth centry mass culture. The work emphasises the topicality of objective and thorough research in the complex, contradictory and multi-aspect phenomenon of mass culture, which is an important layer of modern culture and determines its present state and prospects. Mass culture is constantly spreading. Therefore much prominence has been given to issues associated with factual processes of the development of mass culture in modern societies. Certain important tendencies in mass culture that have appeared in XXth centry, as well as the analysis of mass culture in Soviet and post-Soviet cultural space, including Ukraine have been considered. The author's aim was to show mass culture as new culture and historical paradigm of modern time and a specific layer of of modern culture, as wel as to show the natural character of the formation of mass culture and the causes for growth of its importance in the XXth centery culture