Bilenko T. Word Phenomenon in Spiritual Life of Ukrainian Society: Social and Philosophical Analysis

The thesis is devoted to the word phenomenon studying in a complex interaction of objective and subjective factors of the social processes through existentional manifestation of the personality source, in this dialectics of general and single, progressive and regressive, past and modern is revealed. It is shown that in spiritual life word phenomenon symbolism is predetermined not by its linguistic nature but its social and ideological replenishment which unites the human society in order to embody progress strategies (or is used by definite forces with a contrary purpose). Spiritual life of the society is considered through forms and levels of social consciousness, it contains components of different vectors that are actualized both as rational and irrational factors.