Categorical Apparatus Research Articles

THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF NURSES’ PALLIATIVE COMPETENCE

The purpose: the analysis of problems of palliative and hospice care and palliative competence of a nurse particularly, theoretical rationale of approaches to the study of professional readiness of a nurse in the palliative field.Materials and methods. The results of analysis of domestic and foreign experience of the study a problem of palliative competence of a nurse served as the materials. The theoretical methods (analysis, comparison, synthesis, systematization, classification, generalization) are a development work of up-to-date psychological and pedagogical and medical literature for a matching of various views on the problem under study, analytical and bibliographical, a review of theoretical questions with the aim of determination the conceptual and categorical apparatus. Theoretical and methodological studies are called for a contribution for a maximum qualitative theme disclosing and able to become a base for a creation of the further scientific development within this theme.Results. After the theoretical and methodological analysis of the problem, the palliative competence of a nurse is characterized as an integrative quality of highly-motivated personality that determines a complex of professional knowledge, skills and abilities, professional and personal features that provide an internal readiness to realize the palliative activity. The level of spiritual development, motivation and communicative competence has a particular importance in the activity of a nurse.Conclusions. The approaches to the study of professional readiness in the palliative field were analyzed, the necessity to develop a professional readiness of a nurse with learning in HEI, the development of the following competences: special, educational, informative, social and health preserving were shown. The questions of moral problems also need to be highlighted and formed as the components of professional readiness of a nurse, a spiritual development and spiritual health of nurses can have an influence on the attitude to the palliative patients and their health.

Characteristics of the Legal Institution and Legal Relations of Confidential Cooperation

Confidential cooperation is a separate interdisciplinary legal institution and a separate type of procedural and legal relations between authorized employees of public authorities and individuals who cooperate with them. According to Art. 19 of the Constitution of Ukraine, such relations and the activities of these authorities must be regulated by the laws of Ukraine. However, the institution of confidential cooperation in the legislation is insufficiently regulated, there are no definitions of basic concepts, and the existing provisions of law are contained in various laws and only fragmentarily regulate the relevant legal relations, which complicates their understanding, researching and using. The purpose of the article is a general legal analysis of the institute of confidential cooperation and relevant legal relations; definition of its concepts, principles, subjects, object and content in the context of activity of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (hereinafter – the National Bureau). Methodology. During the writing of the article general scientific methods were used: systems analysis, analogy and comparison, as well as common law methods: rather-legal method, technical legal method, logical and legal reasoning. The state of scientific research and the current legislation of Ukraine, which regulates the relevant legal relations, have been analyzed, its separate norms have been compared. The basic legal terms on the raised subject have been defined. A systematic analysis of the legal institute and the legal relations of confidential cooperation has been conducted both from a purely doctrinal point of view and on the example of activity of the law enforcement agency. Some features and characteristics of the relevant institution and relations are clarified. The results of the research are generalized, concretized and presented in the form of statements and conclusions. Therefore, they can be used in other scientific researches and have both scientific and practical value. The scientific novelty is that in open sources, confidential cooperation is for the first time systematically considered as a separate legal institution and a type of legal relationship; the conceptual and categorical apparatus, principles, subjects, object and content are determined, in particular the rights, duties, responsibilities and guarantees of both authorized employees and confidants are studied in detail. For the first time, the issue of the functioning of the institute of confidential cooperation in the National Bureau, which has its own features and differences in comparison with other law enforcement agencies, was studied. The results of the study can also be used to raise awareness of practitioners, the legal community and the public on the specified issue, as well as in rule-making. Conclusions: the institution of confidential cooperation should be thoroughly regulated by law, as it is connected with law enforcement activities of state bodies and the risk of violation of constitutional human rights and interests. Legal adjustment of the legal institute and legal relations does not pose a threat to the disclosure of forms and methods of operational search, intelligence and counterintelligence activities. At the same time, it provides legal certainty, as well as guarantees the state’s observance of the principles of legality, supremacy of law, and respect for human rights and freedoms. In general, the relevant legal relations should be regulated within the framework of operational search activity law and fixed in one legislative act – the Law of Ukraine “On Operational Search Activity”, in which the basic concepts, subjects and their rights, duties, responsibilities and guarantees should be defined. At the same time, it is necessary to resolve the conflicts with other rules of law, in particular those governing the institution of whistleblowers

THE “CIVILIZATIONAL CHALLENGE / CORRECT RESPONSE” PROBLEM AND THE ARTISTIC LITERATURE OF THE SMALL-NUMBERED PEOPLES OF THE SIBERIAN NORTH: THE CASE OF A. P. NERKAGI

The article covers the reaction strategy of ethnic consciousness of the indigenous small-numbered peoples in the Russian North to the breakdown in understanding of the correctness of the response (Soviet civilization) within the civilizational challenge to the country. This overview is based on the case of tundra Nenets and a Russian-speaking prose writer A. P. Nerkagi. The article introduction presents the humanitarian approaches used in the analysis of the specific functioning of a territorial macro-object receiving a challenge. The concept devoted to the permissibility of the correctness/incorrectness of response, proposed by Arnold Toynbee, allows us to identify the mechanisms in functioning of complex phenomena (the literature of the empire) through segments of large territories and their authoritative subjects (the writer as an exponent of ethnic consciousness in an expanded text). This makes it possible to accumulate material for creating a new sociology of literature, improving its categorical apparatus and intersubject relations. Presented in the concluding section, the thematic complex of abnormalities in the ratio of internal and external in A. P. Nerkagi’s image of the characters supports the research concept of the syncretic and traditionalistic nature of the Nenets writer’s literary creativity. It also proves the existence of different phases in the development of Russian national literatures in accordance with the allocation of a three-link scheme in historical poetics. The purpose of the article is to describe the logic behind the search by an ethnosubject of restoring the supporting bases of world perception and the generation on this basis of a new narrative strategy corresponding to the deep organics of folk culture. All of this is due to such conditions where a total crisis of the previous cultural matrix is manifested.

К постановке вопроса о приведении в единую систему легальных дефиниций в нормативном правовом регулировании национальной безопасности и отдельных ее видов: теоретико-правовое измерение

The article deals with the issues related to the definition of the essence, role and meaning of legal definitions in the regulatory legal regulation of national security. The author emphasizes the uniqueness of the phenomenon of national security, which acts as a guarantor of ensuring the national interests of the state, society, and the individual and as a basis for the unhindered implementation of the strategic national priorities of the state. It is possible to ensure these interests and implement strategic priorities by creating an effective legal regulation that includes various legal means, as well as regulatory requirements. An important role in the regulatory legal regulation is played by legal definitions, which contain definitions of concepts that act as integral elements of the legal basis for ensuring national security. It is indicated that legal definitions of concepts are generally binding and contribute to the formation of a single legal space. It is stated that the current Federal Law «On Security» does not contain a legislative definition of key concepts in the field of national security. The article raises the problem of unification of the conceptual and categorical apparatus in the field of ensuring national security, through the adoption of fundamental documents of strategic planning. The author attempts to evaluate the legal definitions in the field under consideration in terms of their universality and industry affiliation, the problems of the completeness of their textual expression, as well as the state policy implemented in the field of national security. The author proposes the formulation of the concept «national security», which could become the basis for adjusting the legal definitions of certain types of national security, enshrined in legislative acts and strategic planning documents. The functions of legal definitions in the regulatory legal regulation of national security are identified and disclosed.

ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКАЯ ЦЕННОСТЬ ЗЕМЕЛЬ СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННОГО НАЗНАЧЕНИЯ

In order to identify the consumer value of agricultural land, the concept of its creation has been developed, consisting of determining the content of the category, systematizing groups of factors and conditions, describing the process and effect of the emergence of consumer value through interaction with agronomic and economic values. The conceptual and categorical apparatus has been improved by formulating the term "consumer value of agricultural land". The determinants of consumer value are grouped by the organization of production, costs, the presence of motivations on the part of the seller, the management of value formation, the advantages of purchasing a land plot, pricing, consumer finance, the infrastructure of the land market, information and communication technologies, determining the systemic effect of consumer value, making an optimal management decision. The mechanism of creating the consumer value of agricultural land is carried out with the purposeful implementation of the marketing strategy of targeting the consumer by an economic entity, which acts as agricultural organizations, peasant (farmer) farms, individual entrepreneurs, cooperatives. The consumer value of land (goods) is formed in the process of the influence of agronomic, economic values on the formation of supply and demand. The practical significance of the development is to ensure an increase in value, maximum satisfaction of the needs of market participants, balance the interests of subjects of land relations during the transaction, offer, increase the efficiency of the use of agricultural land.

Approach to defining the object of energy efficiency assessment in industry

A scientific project focused on the development of a methodology for assessing energy efficiency classes of industrial facilities identified the primary research problems. The first and most important of them is the absence of a categorical and conceptual apparatus in the field of energy efficiency in industry, both in the Russian Federation and at the global level. This fact limits the definition of the system of indicators in the diagnosis of energy consumption. The study analyzed the definitions of an industrial facility contained in the current legislative and regulatory documents, as well as related assessment categories, such as: an industrial building and an industrial enterprise. The lack of unity in the definition of the identified categories, and in some cases their contradiction, demanded clarification of the category “industrial facility” as an object of diagnostics of energy consumption in industry, within the framework of an expert survey with the involvement of Russian and foreign experts in the field of energy. The practical significance of the results of the study is that the clarification of the category “industrial facility” is an integral attribute of the process of developing a methodological framework for assessing energy efficiency in industry, affecting its substantive part.

Digitalization in the system of methods of scientific knowledge

The study aims to clarify the methodological status of digitalization in the framework of the philosophical theory of knowledge. The subject of the study: explication of the instrumental and methodological nature of digitalization. The problem is solved by employing the categorical and conceptual apparatus of philosophy of science, particularly in paradigm analysis. A comparative analysis of the concepts of “information” and “digitalization” is carried out. Information within the framework of classical scientific rationality coincides with the phenomenon of absolute-relative knowledge. In non-classical rationality, it represents a movement of meaning and expresses the value-valued nature of information technology. In postnonclassical science, the phenomenon of information is associated with intrasystemic communications. Digitalization as a mode of data transmission is incorporated into the deductive and inductive logic of classical science and leads to an essential limitation of the source base. In modern science, data selection entails the creation of systematic factual meaning, and digitalization coincides with analytical activity. In addition to general logical functions, digitalization points to new perspectives on such types of systems methodology as modeling and design. In relation to the information as a methodology, digitalization acts as a meta-methodology. That is, the digital world is defined as an observing reality. In the framework of digitalization, information is identical to knowledge in its postnonclassical meaning. In digitalization, the process of cognition is incorporated into reality itself, forming an intersubjective field of meaning. In this context, digitalization serves as an inter-paradigmatic method of scientific knowledge. Digitalization refers to the rational side of cognition and is a type of systematic methodology and general logical methods.

«Искусство войны» Сунь-цзы и основные положения стратегического менеджмента

The ancient Chinese treatise «The Art of War» by Sun Tzu is relevant for modern strategic management for its practical orientation and lack of edifying attitudes. The developments and strategies proposed in this treatise make it possible to find new opportunities for the development of strategic management. The main objectives of the research are to identify the prerequisites for using the basic principles and calculations outlined in Sun Tzu’s «Art of War» in order to develop the content of modern strategic management. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study are the provisions and categorical apparatus of the theory of strategic management. In this article, general scientific theoretical research methods are used: the formal-logical method, methods of generalization, comparison and analogy. The results of the work have an important theoretical and methodological significance for the development of the theory of strategic planning and control. The use of the universal principles of the treatise «The Art of War» by Sun Tzu is applicable to strategies in local economic wars, they expand the possibilities for creating effective business strategies.

АРХИТЕКТУРА КАК УНИВЕРСАЛЬНЫЙ ПРИНЦИП САМООРГАНИЗАЦИИ МАТЕРИИ

From time to time, mankind moves to new levels of perception of world phenomena and comprehension of the results of its activities, revealing the unity of their structural construction and existence within the general laws of the Universe. Separate sparks of speculation by scientists of antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times about the discovered uniformity of the whole and parts (everything in everything), the universality of formulas for constructing matter from the Universe to an anthill and a molecule, were combined in the 20th century in the theory of fractals and deterministic chaos. The architecture of this hierarchy turned out to be a key link in the circle of concepts of identifying the interrelationships of all its components at different levels of subject-spatial realization: from personal space to socially organized and space systems. The projection of the categorical apparatus of the architecture of people on objects and events of the environment of various scales, on the principles of their methodological comprehension, confirmed the legitimacy of their claims to the privatization of architectural concepts as an attempt to update the approach to measuring the phenomena of the universe and, perhaps, to simplify its understanding, to understand how the whole The technological mechanism creates the universe in an infinite variety of material forms.

Інтелект як субстанційна основа інтелектуального потенціалу

The article considers the conceptual and categorical apparatus of "intelligence", explores various characteristics of its essence and content, analyses the sources, the structure formation and components features. The key role in the intelligence formation belongs to the existing education model chosen in the country and the learning model formed at the enterprise. An overview of research in the collective intelligence field is presented. The demand for collective intelligence technologies as the transition to the knowledge society is argued. The obtained results build the principles of the organizational and economic mechanism for ensuring the industrial enterprises intellectual potential effective use in the implementation of the domestic economy European vector development.

SUBJECT AND OBJECT OF THE FIELD OF PROVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES – FORMATION OF CONCEPTUAL AND CATEGORY APPARATUS

The article presents the solution of the current scientific problem of forming the conceptual and categorical apparatus of the concepts of the subject and object of the sphere of administrative services. It was found that the administrative service is a consequence of the performance of official duties by an authorized entity, which, in accordance with the law, guarantees compliance with the conditions of implementation by individuals and legal entities of rights, freedoms and legitimate interests in accordance with their applications, certificates, certificates, registration, etc.). The essence of the concept of the subject of management is understood, which is understood to mean the authority, institution, subdivision of the management or official who develops and makes decisions to influence the object of management. In turn, the object of management should be considered in this regard as society as a whole, processes, administrative-territorial formations, relations in various fields, industries, as well as teams, organizations, a particular person, ie the recipient of services. It is established that the study of the legal framework indicates the lack of a unified approach of the legislator to define the concept of the subject of public service, while the question of the category of institutions that may be in a similar role remains controversial. In the course of the study, it was concluded that, in terms of establishing the status of the institution carrying out the delegated task, it is considered to study it as an intermediary between the service provider and its recipient. An example of such an intermediary can be the centers of administrative services, in addition, the establishment of relations that are formed during the involvement of such an intermediary, has the most developed regulatory framework in the sector of administrative services. It is established that the issues of normative systematization of the process of delegation of powers in relation to the provision of public services to institutions of the non-public sector and, in addition, systematization of subject-object relations during the provision of services need further elaboration.

Политика противодействия преступлениям, связанным с торговлей людьми: опыт теоретико-правового моделирования

The article discusses the issues of further modeling the criminal policy of combating crime in the field of human trafficking. In this regard, it considers the issues of the constituent elements in the structure of the anticriminal state mechanism. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between criminal and criminological policy. The author has analyzed the research area. So, the author distinguishes two groups of diametrically opposite points of view of scientists: one group of opinions is the idea that criminal policy is part of the criminological one, the other point of view is the opposite. The author of this work is of the opinion about the need for further integration and interaction between various fields of knowledge, including such areas as criminology of law and criminology of criminal law (law). Based on the fundamental concepts of several scientists, the author of the publication presents the structure of criminological legislation in the field of combating crime related to human trafficking, and once again draws attention to the criminogenic gap expressed in the absence of basic anti-trafficking law. In accordance with the author’s approach, the international and national policy, consisting of criminal law, criminal procedural, criminal executive, operational-search, and forensic subsystems, should be included in the number of subsystems of the policy of combating crime related to trafficking in persons. The article notes the need for a clear reflection in the official terminological turnover within the framework of the integral conceptual and categorical apparatus of the draft Concept or the national draft of the legal policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

ОБҐРУНТУВАННЯ ПОВНОВАЖЕНЬ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ГВАРДІЇ УКРАЇНИ У СФЕРІ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ГРОМАДСЬКОЇ БЕЗПЕКИ

The article, based on the author's approaches to the definition of the conceptual and categorical apparatus of the issue, based on the scientific views of domestic researchers, as well as the position of the legislator, set out in regulations argues that public safety is essentially a regulated legal regim, which are entrusted to the National Guard of Ukraine. The main elements of such a legal regime are the normal functioning of infrastructure elements, human and civil rights and freedoms of all, without exception, members of a particular community (or the whole country), as well as other elements that may, if destroyed, adversely affect normal life people and citizens. It is proved that the normative regulation of the National Guard of Ukraine provides for the emergence of its legal obligation not only to ensure public safety, but to do so only in the manner prescribed by current legislation of Ukraine and solely in the interests of society, knowing what is a threat in a community what not. The author expressed the position that the analyzed responsibilities of the National Guard of Ukraine, which relate purely to the process of public security by the guard within its competence, give grounds to claim that the author reached the correct conclusion about the content and direction of the National Guard of Ukraine. Because all, without exception, responsibilities directly or indirectly indicate the need for the National Guard of Ukraine to perform its duties in a particular area, as well as ensuring human and civil rights and freedoms to the extent that they feel protected and able to live in the usual rhythm.

КРЕДИТ: СУТНІСТЬ, ПРИНЦИПИ ТА ФУНКЦІЇ

In the modern economic system, with the development of market relations, the leading links in the economy began to be commercial banks, on whose activities depends the effective functioning of the state economy as a whole. The level of development of production, social infrastructure and the degree of development of society as a whole largely depends on how developed the banking sector of the state is. An important role in fulfilling the tasks is assigned to commercial banks, which can provide credit resources to enterprises and organizations, as well as citizens. Among the many categories of economics, credit can be considered among the most important, due to the unique role played by this economic phenomenon in the economic life not only of individual organizations, states, but society as a whole. The purpose of the article is to clarify the conceptual and categorical apparatus of the definition of "credit", its functions and principles of lending. The article examines the theoretical basis for determining the essence of the definition of "credit", its origin, functions and principles of lending, which highlighted the fact that credit is the most common form of raising funds in the banking market. It is determined that a bank loan is a form of credit in which money is lent by banks. Commercial banks licensed by the NBU are the main link in the credit system, they simultaneously act as a buyer and seller of temporarily available funds in society. In the system of economic relations, credit acts as an independent economic category. Thanks to credit, businesses have the opportunity to meet their economic needs to ensure the continuity of the processes of social reproduction, overcoming the limited financial resources. Credit relations allow businesses to increase their financial resources and expand production. The credit relationship between a banking institution and an entity is based on an analysis of the borrower’s financial condition. The main specific features of credit relations are: their emergence at the stage of redistribution of final income; formation on the basis of return and with the payment of interest; impact on the structure and volume of cash flows and features of the bank loan market.

THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF RESOURCE SAVING MANAGEMENT

Introduction. The emergence of scientific achievements in terms of saving various resources, especially material, resource conservation programs, diversity of research on this issue, a wide range of areas and areas of resource conservation and energy saving require systematization of scientific knowledge, specification and continuous improvement of categorical management. potential at the micro and macro level, which justifies the feasibility of developing new approaches to resource management and resource-saving development.Purpose. The purpose of the article is generalization of theoretical bases of resource saving management.Results. Theoretical views and organizational support of the theory of resource conservation are generalized. The categorical apparatus of resource saving is investigated. Resources are considered depending on the level of management at which they are used (operational, tactical and strategic). It is proved that the definition of can be positioned within four main approaches: an integrated approach (stocks, values, opportunities and sources of their formation); production approach (basic elements of production potential); structural approach (set of material, financial, energy, technical means and labor); property approach (assets, ie property in its tangible and intangible forms). The own definition of resources as different values which in case of need can be used in the course of creation of values of the highest order (product, service) for the purpose of satisfaction of needs of consumers is presented.Originality. Taking into account the diversity of classifications and features of resource typing, it is proposed to define the following as the main types of enterprise resources: natural, tangible, intangible, financial, human, informational, temporal and structural-organizational. This classification is proposed to take into account the characteristics and distinctive characteristics of resources, and at the same time no longer overload the detailed division of resources, because, for example, intellectual resources are derived from labor and intangible resources, and technical and technological - from tangible and intangible resources. Thus, the proposed classification, on the one hand, identifies the most significant types of resources and covers all their diversity, on the other - does not burden the extra types and types of resources that are derived from other resources or from combining several types of resources. Based on the proposed classification, these types of resources can be defined as production resources. Thus, the production resources of the enterprise - is a set of resources through which the company receives financial results in the process of expanded reproduction, transformation and accumulation in other types of resources in order to achieve economic effect.Conclusion. These classifications allow further analysis of production resources and their impact on production processes and the efficiency of the enterprise. the classification features of typification of production resources of the enterprise are defined. It is substantiated that the production resources of the enterprise depending on their origin can be divided into different groups and types: by natural form of involvement, urgency of involvement, use in the production process, availability, nature of use and other characteristics. One of the most important tasks facing the management of modern enterprises is the choice of functions, methods, principles, tools with which to manage resource conservation.

Sustainable development and the role of instrumentalism concepts for social institutions and educational system

The conception of pragmatism and the educational theory deriving from it are quite popular in management systems and social sciences in the context of the need of implementing sustainable development strategies. This is facilitated, firstly, by the combination in the renewed conceptions of this trend of its bottom-up positions with the ideas of other worldview trends – neo-positivism, existentialism, neoFreudism – which enabled enriching the categorical apparatus and general theoretical content of the educational model, management and social education of pragmatism, while preserving the spirit of the conception. Secondly, the changes undergone by the conception of pragmatism in education have allowed it to successfully integrate into the currently intensified general trend of understanding educational management as a process of socialization of the individual, his/her adaptation to the existing values of Western society. In this context, it is a matter of assessing human behavior not in terms of whether it is consistent with fixed, „eternal‟ moral principles, but rather in terms of the practical results that human actions contribute to the achievement of a given aim. This aim was understood in different ways: some identified it with the development of personal consciousness, while others linked it to self-improvement or integrity, still others linked it to the ultimate development of all human faculties, etc. Obviously, the very desire for such a shift in the assessment of human behavior reflected the fact that the absolute principles and norms of classical ethics were no longer „working‟ under the new social conditions; a more sophisticated criterion was needed to evaluate behavior in the context of constantly changing factors in social and individual life.

The Poetic and the Political in Valery Podoroga’s Analytical Anthropology

The article is devoted to an analysis of the creative work of the Russian philosopher Valery Podoroga. It focuses on the special discipline he created, namely, “analytical anthropology”, and the book “Anthropograms”, in which Valery Podoroga sets out the basic principles and analytical tools of his philosophical work. Examining the books of the philosopher that preceded the creation of analytical anthropology and those that were written later, it is possible to single out two important lines of his research. First, the philosophy of literature and second, research in the field of the political. Podoroga’s understanding of literature is broader than that of a cultural practice or a social institution. For him, it is the space of the corporal experience of contact with the world, in which the affective aspect of thinking is realized. This line of analysis points to the “poetic” dimension of the experience of thinking, since the emphasis here is on what Jakobson called the “poetic function of language”, its orientation toward itself. It is precisely the literary aspect that becomes important when analyzing the texts of philosophers (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger); however, what is even more important is that in the very experience of fiction Podoroga is trying to find new means for philosophy. His “poetic line” is closely connected with the poetics of space (Bachelard) and the phenomenology of the body (Merleau-Ponty, Henry). It is the combination of poetics and phenomenology that allows Podoroga to overcome both the orientation of poetics exclusively toward language and the categorical apparatus of philosophy. The main result of Valery Podoroga’s work is the creation of an “anthropogram”, a special kind of scheme in which the action of the Work (a literary work, but not only) is immanent to the dynamics of the world. Is it possible to create such anthropograms outside the field of literature? Podoroga does not specify. The article attempts to show how Podoroga’s ways of working with literary texts correlate with his works dealing with the technologies of power and violence, transforming separate political and ethical terms into anthropograms, that is, forms of thought immanent to life itself.

ЕКОНОМІЧНА БЕЗПЕКА ДЕРЖАВИ ЯК БАЗОВЕ ПОНЯТТЯ ЕКОСЕСТЕЙТУ: У ПОШУКАХ УНІВЕРСАЛЬНОЇ ДЕФІНІЦІЇ

The author states, that the theory of economic security of the state as a scientific discipline today is at the beginning of its new stage of development. A marked surge of interest in this topic is expected in the nearest future, that will intensify research activity in this scientific field. To meet these expectations scientific community needs a strong methodological platform, which should be based on universal and coherent categorical apparatus. However, a set of essential methodological problems may deteriorate a rise of the economic security of the state. One of the key problems is a significant number of scientific schools within the discipline. Most of them has developed their own categorical-conceptual apparatus. The author draws attention, that terminological chaos in the theory of economic security of the state as one of a serious problem for its institutionalization and development as an independent scientific discipline. It makes impossible to create a common methodological framework for discipline and undermines constructive scientific discussion between representatives of different scientific schools in this field. The huge differences between scientific schools are observed already at the stage of defining the basic definition of this scientific discipline - “economic security of the state”. A plenty of various approaches can be identified withing this scientific community. The differences between defining concept of “economic security of the state” are very deep indeed. This is a significant obstacle to create a common platform for numerous groups of scientists, who are working on various aspects of this topic. To resolve this problem and find common solution the author has analysed a majority of approaches of various scientific schools and individual scientists regarding the definition of the concept of “economic security of the state”. Their advantages and disadvantages have been identified. Based on knowledge obtained the author has proposed his own definition. According to it, “economic security of the state” should be treated as a state of the economy, that is intentionally and purposefully adjusted by public authorities in order to ensures the state's resilience to external and internal systemic threats and aggressive actions undertaken by other states. The author has justified the practicability of using this definition in the scientific research as well as policy-making.

The potential of aesthetic and artistic search: the cultural model of Michel Welbeck

The article reconstructs the creative path of Michel Welbeck — a famous French writer, essayist and film director, who is generally known as a prose writer since the 90s of the twentieth century, when his novel "Expanding the space of struggle" (1994) was published. This ensured Welbeck a high place in the hierarchy of writers and "postmodern" orientation, especially among those who position themselves in the field of elite literature. The emphasis is on the transformational processes in the work of the prose writer, who gradually changes the "postmodern" means of expression to new approaches to "building" a literary work, increasingly demonstrating the "author's" position, based on the potential of creative experiment. Both the inner dynamism of Welbeck's novels and his attraction to new aesthetic and artistic pursuits other than "postmodernism" allow him to "move" to as yet untested cultural positions, in particular, to "metamodernism". In the context of "metamodernism" the focus is on the phenomenon of "metaprose", the core of which is "historioplasticity" — a concept that, on the one hand, can update the conceptual and categorical apparatus formed in the movement "postmodernism–post+postmodernism ", and on the other — to argue the emergence of a novel of the" new type ". The article uses elements of comparative analysis, which outline the place of M. Welbeck in modern European cultural space, where a whole cohort of writers is eager to search for new means of expression and create works of various genres. The dynamic nature of Welbeck's work is uncoverered in the article. In his novels created during 2000-2020 the author not only consolidated his own creative positions, but also revealed the potential of such a literary form as "pastiche novel".

Growth and/or development: specificity of the Russian economic model

The article provides a systematic description of the main features of the post-Soviet economy. The methodology and categorical apparatus of classical political economy, classical institutionalism, as well as of other directions of heterodox economic theory are the basis for identifying the content, the structure and the peculiarities of Russian economy. The authors demonstrate the influence of climatic, spatial, and historical characteristics of Russia on the formation of these characteristic features. The main stages of the evolution of Russian economy are highlighted, as well as the particularities of their growth / decline as shown by macroeconomic quantitative indicators. Special attention is paid to qualitative indicators characterizing social results and contradictions in the development of the main sectors of the economy. On this basis, conclusions are formulated that reveal the reasons for the deep recession in the 1990s, extensive development in the 2000s and stagnation in the 2010s. The author comes to the conclusion that nonrandom the presence of two main concepts for the further development of Russia - a neoliberal concept and a concept focused on enhancing social regulation and social orientation of development (and not just economic growth) – is not accidental.