“STEPPE AND THE SEA, EVERYWHERE BEATEN PATH, EVERYWHERE GOLD AND GLORY”: EIDOLOGICAL COMPLEX IN THE SYSTEMOF STATE CREATIVE IDEAS OF DMITRY DONTSOV

Abstract

The article examines the eidological complex in the system of state-making ideas of Dmitry Dontsov, and substantiates the relationship between the imagery system of his essay and state-building ideas. The topic is relevant in view of the separate observations of the authors of the post-colonial period regarding the national philosophical interpretation of journalism in the 20-30 years of the twentieth century, the functional purpose and systematic analysis of leading characters in D. Dontsov's articles. It is found that the publicist, proceeded from the specific Ukrainian realities, needs, demands, requests, though expressed ideological and insistence ideas, postulates, tendencies of his age. Dontsov formed and showed ways of nationalization and national assertion, without which the nation would not exist and would not survive. The concepts of the steppe and the sea, images of "living" or dirty land, the glory of the Cossacks were used by D. Dontsov in order to raise in the reader questions that are vital to the existence of a nation, and therefore the eidological system would encourage the return of individual personality and the whole demos on their own historical path. As a result of the work, it is determined that Ukraine is the leading, cross-cutting basis, covering the dominant images of the steppe, sea, land, path, and the fundamental semantic concept. The motherland is conceived by the publicist as a pillar of existence, as a purely Ukrainian foundation that must be guarded, defended and protected. At the same time, it is also an image-code that is revealed not in isolation, but through a clearly defined philosophical-eschatological dichotomy: will / bondage, life / death, freedom / slavery, being on the Earth / eternal life, decline / revival. The literary hero, being closely interrelated with the corresponding figurative structures, entrenches or loses his own roots, since then the semantic ontological meaning of the character of Ukraine is changed. It is literarily interpreted as a historical path that encompasses infinite time-space, where the lyrical hero ponders on the difficulties of choosing a personal road, on the expediency of the path, that was already chosen. The lyrical hero is being likened to its own state, which determines what historical path should be chosen.