B.WALDENFELS'S RESPONSIVE TOPOGRAPHY OF FOREIGNNESS: ART'S RESPONSES TO CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES

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The purpose of the study is to consider the topography of foreignness of Waldenfels as an example of a possible phenomenology of modern art and all the contradictions of the modern artistic image. Research methods – hermeneutics, phenomenology, responsive phenomenology of B. Waldenfels, philosophy of art, discursive and art analysis, philosophy of trauma. Scientific novelty. It is proved that modern postmodern and metamodern culture is characterized by the understanding of the Stranger and alienation. The best theoretician of the problem of the Stranger and the meeting of a person with a stranger is B. Waldenfels. For the first time, the phenomenology of someone else's Waldenfels was applied to understand the philosophy and imagery of modern Ukrainian art. The stranger can acquire both positive semantics, the gradual development of the city, and hostility, the threat of depopulation, the disappearance of human features in the city, where the city can become a symbol of the destruction and oblivion of the usual world of a traumatized person. Conclusions. Modernism was characterized by the loss of reality in space, this becomes irony in postmodernism and alienation in metamodernism. Control and totality are trying to be destroyed by the postmodern, instead we see that the postmodern has to meet the Stranger as a threat and a possible participant in the dialogue. Modern art insists on the polyphony of such a dialogue, and that the pleasant and unpleasant features of the Stranger must be accepted. Postmodern art refuses to reflect on violence, which leads to worldview crises and is one of the ideological bases of wars, in particular the Russian-Ukrainian one. One of the ways to describe such a situation is to describe the images of modern art as phatic and dynamic. Efforts to achieve harmony and pure form level the distance. The introduction of distance and emptiness in the artistic image of postmodern and metamodern corresponds to the distances of the material world, defines postmodern art. Based on the explication of Waldenfels' phenomenology of alienation, it is possible to consider contemporary art and most of its existing contradictions as a dual process - both the emergence of alienation and delocalization of old cultural spaces, and the creation of new digital and media spaces of social solidarity.