Linguistic and Stylistic Means of Satire Construction in the Animated Series

The study is devoted to the description of linguistic and stylistic means of satire construction in modern American animated series. The article deals with a detailed analysis of the linguistic and stylistic means that actualize the satiric and ironic meanings for a satire creation based on the examples of American series. Cartoonists often resort to satire as a unique genre of art to express direct or indirect criticism of the structure of modern society. Modern satirical cartoons contain vivid elements of parody and caricature. An obligatory consequence of satirical creativity is exposure and laughter. The methods of socio-political satire of modern animated serials are enhanced by the interplay of irony and sarcasm, hyperbole and grotesque, allegory and allusion, paraphrase and play on words. American animated series mirror modern reality, they reflect numerous facts of daily life and current environment touching their most critical sides: economics, politics, education, religion, ethnic issues, international ties and relations, interpersonal dealings. Socio-political satire is peculiar in that it does not spare not only the ruling branch of power, but also an ordinary, ordinary, gray person. In this dullness and ignorance of his, the average man in the street is ready to blindly obey the most ridiculous and absurd orders. Of course, an animated series cannot solve acute social or political problems facing society. But the fact that these questions are raised means that the problems are urgent. The purpose of such satire is to reflect on mistakes and not repeat them in the future. For example, South Park, Rick and Morty, Family Guy, F is for Family parody the modern family, social order, exaggerate social issues to the extreme. The relevance of this study is due to several reasons: first, the abundance of cartoon products on the modern film industry market. Secondly, the role that cartoons and serials play in the life of a modern person and in the culture of postmodernity. It is common knowledge that over the past few years, the TV series and animated series industry has changed a lot: streaming services (Netflix, Hulu and Amazon) appear, new formats are released, and more and more cartoon characters are voiced by famous actors. Thirdly, it is confirmed by the idea of the existence of the phenomenon of the "Big Serial Bang", expressed by Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Higher School of Economics V.A. Kurenniy. The fact that modern TV series are a cultural product that accurately reflects the spirit of the times remains an indisputable fact. Such a visual narrative fits perfectly into the framework of modern society.

Amateurism, Professionalism and the Value of College Sports

The value of college sport can be measured in many ways. Most people measure it in dollars, others point to less-tangible benefits such as alumni engagement and campus morale, only a few focus on its educational value. Yet this, as Myles Brand repeatedly recognized, is the value that really counts. Brand’s was something of a voice in the wilderness on this issue—a voice sorely missed in this age of debate about limits on compensation for student-athletes. As a philosophy professor, Brand’s insistence on the educational value of sport follows a tradition begun in ancient Greece by Pythagoras, Socrates, and especially Plato. In this essay, I honor Brand and that ancient tradition by exploring the value of college sport from a philosophical perspective. I interrogate the oppositions of amateurism vs. professionalism, academics vs. athletics, and employment vs. exploitation to arrive at the paradoxical conclusion that ideals of excellence and professionalism are at the heart of “amateurism” in the context of college sport. Education, meanwhile, is the value in college sport that needs to guide all the others—including those that involve dollar signs.

Introduction

For most of my life, I’ve thought of Love and Death as my favorite movie. It’s a 1975 satire about Russian literature featuring humor that runs the gamut from highbrow referential comedy, to slapstick, to what could only be described as dad jokes. It’s also full of explicitly philosophical discussions, so as a philosophy-minded adolescent who went on to become a philosophy professor, I was no doubt predisposed to like it. I don’t think it’s a famous movie, exactly, so you may not be familiar with it. ...

Felix Trofimovich Mikhailov’s Search into The Riddle of the Self

On April 16th and 17th, 2021, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education (MSUPE), Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education (RAE), the Philosophical Society Dialectic and Culture together with the ANO Institute of Problem Educational Policies Eureka and informational support of the journals Cultural-Historical Psychology and Voprosy Filosofii held an international scientific conference The Riddle of the Self. The scientific conference took place in MSUPE in connection with the 90th anniversary of Felix Trofimivich Mikhailov (1930-2006), Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Academician of the RAE and the author of the book under the same title. The Riddle of the Self was originally published in 1964 and advocated for a general study of human nature based on the study of cognition, consciousness, and language. This lapidary book was reprinted in 1976 and determined a whole new paradigm of multidisciplinary knowledge of person and personality across various research fields. The focus of the Self of F. T. Mikhailov came into being through his idea of appeal (obrashchenie). This concept is vivid in his works and multi-author books Public Consciousness and Individual Self-consciousness (1990), Self-Consciousness: Mine and Ours (1997), Human as Object and Subject of Medicine (1999), Selected Works (2001), Self-determination of Culture. Philosophical Search (2003), and in multiple scientific articles in the journals Voprosy Filosofii, Philosophical Sciences etc. F. T. Mikhailov viewed appeal as a mechanism of creation, development and transformation of culture, as well as the mechanism of its appropriation in ontogenesis and phylogenesis. According to F. T. Mikhailov, culture is nothing less than an antecedent, process and result of people’s creation of their appeals to each other and themselves, appeals that are essential to their very life. Culture as intersubjectivity of human collectivity is deeply rooted in the fabric of education and determines the appeals of the participants of the educational process. F. T. Mikhailov considered education a meeting point of generations, where different age groups face each other and appeal to each other in a way that generates, reconstitutes and conserves culture. The key to the above-mentioned riddle can be found in the domain of human freedom of thought, feeling and action. And every person can advance the emergence of a free and creative Self, both personal and universal. The conference comprised multiple lines of research into philosophy, culture, communication, psychology and education and made it clear that we are still students of F. T. Mikhailov.

Viktor Petrovych Andruschenko’s "Phenomenon of Education"

Review of the monograph of Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine Viktor Petrovich Andrushchenko, made in 5 books: Andrushchenko, V. P. (2020) The phenomenon of education: in 5 books. Book 1. The concept of education: content and subject field. Sumy: University book. 452 s. Andrushchenko, V. P. (2020) The phenomenon of education: in 5 books. Book 2. Structural and functional analysis of education. Sumy: University book. 592 s. Andrushchenko, V. P. (2020) The phenomenon of education: in 5 books. Book 3. Existential space of education. Sumy: University book. 500 s. Andrushchenko, V. P. (2020) The phenomenon of education: in 5 books. Book 4. Ukrainian education: history of formation, development, modernization. Sumy: University book. 560 s. Andrushchenko, V. P. (2020) The phenomenon of education: in 5 books. Book 5. Articles and interviews. Sumy: University book. 536 s.

Vladimir Mironov’s metaphysics and university education transformation

The article deals with the specificity of philosophical knowledge, metaphysics as its semantic core and the problems of transforming modern humanitarian university education, which was developed in the work of Vladimir Mironov. V. V. Mironov is a well-known Russian scientist, doctor of philosophy, professor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, dean of the faculty of philosophy of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. The author analyses current problems related to the role of philosophy in shaping the image of the future in modern culture, reforming university education, the consequences of introducing scientometric methods into the educational process, the readiness of higher education responding to the challenges of the times, global instability, commercialisation, digitalisation, etc. The scientific position of V. V. Mironov on topical problems of transforming modern society, its assessment and reflections on the prospects for teaching philosophy and the humanities.

The contribution of Svetlana N. Ikonnikova to the development of the Russian Cultural Studies

The article is devoted to the formation and the development of the academic, creative and organization path of Svetlana N. Ikonnikova – Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, International Academy of Sciences of Higher School. The main stages of the biography and the results of her academic activity are considered in this article. It is shown that Svetlana N. Ikonnikova made the great contribution to the formation of such branch of Humanities as the Sociology of Youth. The separate stage is the creation of the Department of Theory and History, which played an important role in the development of the St. Petersburg School of Cultural Studies as well as the study of problems of theory and history of culture. The author shows the development of Svetlana N. Ikonnikova’s biographical method in Cultural Studies. This method played an important role in the study of personal contribution of creative personalities to the development of culture. The author analyzes the personal contribution of Svetlana N. Ikonnikova to the institutionalization of Cultural Studies as an academic and educational subject.

Problem of method and Subject in the early philosophy of S.L. Rubinstein

The article examines a number of methodological and conceptual features in the philosophical work of S.L. Rubinstein of the early (Marburg) period. It is assumed that the copies of Rubinstein’s doctoral inaugural dissertation available at the university of Marburg (Germany) and it the private archive of K.A. Abulkhanova represents two parts of one research, which understated expect in it’s first part (the text submitted for defense) an interpretation and criticism of Hegel’s absolute rationalism, and in the second part an exposition of the author’s own concept. It is proved that Rubinstein overcomes the logical limitation the Hegelian philosophical absolutization – the opposition of being and consciousness, the author fuses object and subject in a single being as a domain of accommodation of both, the construction of the internal consistent picture of being as the actual being of a leaving subject. Acknowledgement of Sources. The author is sincerely grateful to the D. Sc. in Philosophy, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education K.A. Abulkhanova for the materials provided from her personal archive.

Philosophy and philosophers in L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University’s life

The article is aimed to analyze the philosophy’s functions, which makes it possible to understand the importance of philosophy discipline in staff training for various spheres of life in society. The authors also show the role of cultural studies in the formation of a student’s personality, the importance historical and philosophical sciences for the development of research skills, the formation of their own worldview and methodological position in science and practice. The article considers well-known philosophers of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. The authors describe contribution of such academicians as Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan Zh.M. Abdildin and the Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, writer Garifolla Esim. The article summarizes the materials relating to teaching, research, social and educational activities of Philosophy Department. They show desire of department to carry out its activities within the mission of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, the vision and direction of its development. The article summarizes some of the results of the activities of Philosophy Department, operating since the founding of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University

Sonic Becomings: Rhythmic Encounters in Interspecies Improvisation

David Rothenberg, a philosophy professor and Jazz musician, has been improvising with nonhuman animals for years, among his playing partners are birds and whales, known to be territorial animals. As Deleuze and Guattari propose that the origin of art is precisely the territorialising animal and more a function of nature than a specifically human cultural achievement, their concept of territory and rhythm offers a non-anthropocentric way of looking at these encounters. Rothenberg’s sonic experiments in resonance and interspecies interaction do not rely on language, thus I argue that the human and the nonhuman animals form a temporary joint territory via sonic rhythms and engage in a mutual becoming by forming a rhizome. His sound thinking practice thus also helps in decentralising further anthropocentric models of music and art.