To memory of Volodymyr Andriyovych Romenets

Abstract

The emergence of new modern approaches and methods of analysis of the history society, science, culture leaves unchanged the best examples of the historical research, to the number of which, on the basis of their objectivity and perfection, belongs the creativity of Volodymyr Andriyovych Romenets. It’s appears not only important but also fundamental, transforming from actually historical into theoretical-methodological provided the level, scale and depth of its implementation. The history of the science is not only its past, it discloses general strategy of its building and thus brings to the future of the science, enabling the forecasting the development of its priority directions. Designed by V. A. Romenets the direction of the cognition is unique and truly fundamental, covering great historical periods of development psychological knowledge, disclosing regularities of this development concerning scale of world psychology, context of world culture. A special place of this research in a series of many other historical-psychological domestic works is determined by that fact that they usually do not go beyond the limits of studying the  history of psychology as a science while searching of V. A. Romenets cover almost whole process of the development of different, historically conditioned forms of psychological knowledge. The most important feature of this direction of researches is in the essence of methodological approach which altogether unites the analysis of the history of knowledge development with the history of the subject development of the science: the author offers his own concept of transformation of this subject. The exceptional feature of indicated research that allows to compare it with works of O. F. Losyev, lies in the breadth of coverage of the studied context, in considering the history of psychological ideas and itself phenomena of spiritual-psychological plan in the development of the whole culture of mankind, the history of human creativity. And we should agree with the expression of the author that exactly during achieving of such cultural of approach and method of cognition, are destroyed the frames of narrowly scientistic interpretation approach to psychology, opens certain universalism of its ideas and their unconditional humanistic value. Understanding and disclosure the line of formation the psychological knowledge is impossible without disclosure of psychological problems in the methodology, religion, law, art, artistic literature, folklore, temper, habits and so on. Such wide context of studied content fillings, allows to find continuity in the process of creative formation of ideas, to detect varied ways of interaction between the scientific, philosophical and artistic reproduction of human psychology.