Kalakura Yaroslav, Bagalika Yuliya

Making a history textbook as a segment of Lesya Ukrainka’s intellectual biography

Section: Contexts of Lesya Ukrainka’s biographical world: A view from the 21st century

Abstract: The aim of the article is to implement researches upon Lesya Ukrainka’s life history and creative heritage, attracting and analyzing the works of predecessors of the place and role of receptions from the Ukrainian past, writing textbooks on the ancient history of Eastern peoples in the structure of the intellectual model of her biography, in-sighting into the concept of “intellectual biography”, revealing its significance for overcoming stereotypes and manipulations of Soviet biographism, creating on this basis a consistent biography of ideas and creative works of the writer. Methodological tools are represented by the principles of historicism, continuity, objectivity, anthropological, systemic and synergetic approaches, a number of methods of inquiry, included analysis and synthesis, source criticism, problem-chronological, comparative, textological, biographical ways of research as well as methods of phenomenology. Scientific novelty consists in bringing up to date the very concept of “intellectual biography” as a scientific synthesis of biographical, textual and socio-cultural analysis of intellectuals life and their creative works, in substantiating additional ways to implement a system and complex cognition of the unique personality of Lesya Ukrainka, her inner emotional world, the influence of personal qualities and environment on formation of a historio-sophical worldview, inspiring the interest in Ukrainian and foreign history, as well as in researching the specific features of the idea, sense making of the sources, methods for writing of “Ancient history of Eastern peoples”, its structure, style and socio-cultural significance. The conclusion following the analysis of Lesya Ukrainka’s work on writing history textbooks has been grounded on the fact that her full intellectual biography should include not only creative work, but also the process itself, life reflections, interaction with the environment, and the inner emotional world. It can only be created at an interdisciplinary level by joint efforts of scholars in literature, history, Oriental studies, philosophy, philology, ethnology and psychology on the basis of anthropological and synergetic approaches.

Keywords: Lesya Ukrainka, intellectual biography, historical views, historio-sophical thinking, textbook “Ancient history of Eastern peoples”, methodology, overcoming of stereotypes

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• Kalakura Yaroslav (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine), [email protected]) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9007-4991
• Bagalika Yuliya (Kyiv regional state administration (Kyiv, Ukraine), [email protected])

Cite:
Kalakura Yaroslav (2021). Making a history textbook as a segment of Lesya Ukrainka’s intellectual biography. Biographistica Ukrainica, (21) 103-119. (In Ukrainan). https://doi.org/10.15407/ub.21.103

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