The philosophy of the Ukrainian idea and the European context: the Franko's period

Written in the last year of the existence of the USSR and first published in 1992, Oksana Zabuzhko's book "The Philosophy of the Ukrainian Idea and the European Context: The Franko's Period" marked the beginning of the post-colonial rethinking of national heritage in the humanitarian thought of independent Ukraine.

This is the first work in which the philosophy of the national idea is considered an independent intellectual current that reaches far beyond the borders of political science — to questions about the essence and meaning of national existence. Based on a wide range of historical and cultural material, the author explores the place of this current in the European — and, especially, Ukrainian — consciousness of modern times (XIX — early XX centuries), focusing separately on the figure of "Moses of modern Ukraine" — I. Franko.

The book was published within the framework of the institutional support program for publishers of the Ukrainian Book Institute.