The value-semantic essence of the holiday and its role in the harmonization of the cultural being of the modern man

Abstract

The actuality of the research is due to the existing problems of the development of the cultural person, which should not lose the faith, the hope and the humaneness in the calls of the time and the space. But the modern stage of the development of the culture demonstrates the situations of the alienation of the man from the nature, other people, their own essence. As the result, the person realizes the imperfection of his life and does not feel confident in the realization of the existential properties. Such condition requires the search of the sources of the harmonization of the cultural space of the person, so the strengthening of its connections with the outside world and the finding of the harmony in its own microcosm.

The authors propose to turn to the philosophical analytics of the origins of the culture. In their opinion, those the universally important value are laid down which will allow to work out the new strategies of the ordering of the cultural being of the man. The holiday in this sense appears as one of the first phenomena of the culture and it is the bearer of the universally significant human values ​​and the meanings, which are reproduced in the cultural being of the man, and thus, they maintain harmony.

Researching the nature of the holiday, the authors turn to the understanding of the holiday as the symbolic form of the culture. This approach gave the opportunity to comprehend this phenomenon as the value-semantic universe of the human way of the being in the world, which helps to streamline the cultural being of the man with the help of the symbolic mastering.

The value potential of the holiday is realized through the functions; it carries out in the cultural being of the person. The authors point out the function of the designing and the ordering of the cultural chronotope, as well as the ideological, the educational, the integrative, the socializing, the compensatory, the artistic-aesthetic, the communicative functions. Such functional orientation of the holiday is allowed to save and to transmit socially significant experience, it contributes to its individual assimilation, which supports the continuity of the human being.