DOI: 10.7256/2454-0625.2022.8.36448

Abstract: The subject of the article is the problem of the functioning of myth in the context of a dialectically constructed functional asymmetry of culture, language and thinking, where myth and science actively interact complementing each other. The purpose of the article is to consider the causes, nature and mechanism of this interaction, to identify the features of its manifestation and to show its positive sides. As a methodological support for the research, approaches and principles of non-classical science were used, allowing to move away from the classical attitudes of mythology and look at it more broadly, considering the myth not as a legend about gods and heroes, but as a cultural universal and a property of consciousness. The main conclusions of the article are reduced to understanding the importance of the perception of myth in the mode of non-classical mythology developed in the twentieth century, where myth is understood as a semantic matrix of culture responsible for the formation of a field of value meanings. This makes it possible to better understand the role of myth and myth-making in the structure of culture and consciousness, as well as to consider the epistemological resource of myth in scientific creativity, which is clearly underestimated in science, creating a complex system of cognitive dependencies resembling the interaction of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which form the necessary variety of functional capabilities of human intelligence, working on the principle of mutual complementarity.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-8728.2021.12.36503

Abstract: The subject of this research is the analysis of epistemological approaches offered by nonclassical science towards the ontology of myth in the context of nonclassical mythology. Myth is viewed as a basic cultural universal, responsible for the semantic field of culture; while mythopoeia is perceived as a characteristic and important function of consciousness. The goal of this article lie in outlining the opportunities opened to the researchers of myth in the context of shift of the scientific paradigm. It is namely thanks to the scientific paradigm that mythological space of culture is no longer perceived as the antagonist of science, but as the essential aspect of its effective functionality. Methodological framework is comprised of the approaches developed and accepted in nonclassical science. Examination of myth through the prism of nonclassical science reveals new perspectives that allow studying myth as an integral whole, without separating into scientific disciplines. It should be taken into account that myth plays a significant, although not always positive role in science and society, interacting with science upon the principle of mutual complementarity. In particular, myth helps to advance and substantiate the scientific hypotheses, form scientific worldviews and images of the future. The approaches of nonclassical mythology, in turn, reveal that in the modern conditions, myth becomes the instrument of politics and the method for solving social issues, manifesting as a factor of national security and mechanism for manipulation. However, its further study requires the development of the universal theory of myth, the basic prerequisites of which have already been created.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-8728.2021.10.36441

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the cognitive and epistemological peculiarities of the myth, which can be better understood relying on the principles and approaches of nonclassical science. The article discloses the key reasons for incomprehension of the myth by science, and explains the ways for its overcoming based on the broader sense of the myth. Within the framework of this paradigm, myth is viewed as a cultural universal, where mythmaking is a quality and function of consciousness. Such myth long ago has transcended the representations and formulas of classical mythology, and requires different attitude, considering the latest research (A. A. Gagaev, A. M. Lobok, V. M. Naydysh, and others). These studies indicate that modern (nonclassical) myth can be grasped only with consideration of latest discoveries in psychology, semiotics, and cognitive research, which prove that people have always been engaged in mythmaking, not just at the dawn of humanity. This means that on the agenda of scientific research of myth is the problem of existence of another nonclassical mythology and the creation of the universal theory of myth. All major elaborations of the leading theories of myth of the XX century are successfully synthesized within the universal theory of myth in accordance with the principle of mutual complementarity. This topic is increasingly relevant, and opens up new opportunities for science, fundamentally changing its perception of myth.