Reception of the sacred in european musical culture in the second half of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries: methodological aspect

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to syntesize an integral methodological complex by comparing different philosophical, culturological, psychoanalytic and musicological works of the 20-21st centuries. Меthodology. In the process of realization of the aim set the following methods have been used: a comparative method (for revealing similar essential traits in the theories from different spheres of the humanities); historical (connected with considering these  theories in the context of different periods of European culture). A system approach has been used for structuring a functional and logically completed methodology. Scientific novelty. The doctrines represented in the research not only from different fields of the humanities, but from different periods of their development for the first time have been gathered as complementary components of the integral methodology. Conclusions. The synthesis of the theories in question produces the following methodological theses: a) interpretation of European culture as metapersonality (specifics of its mental existence is on a large scale identical to mental existence of a single individual); b) accentuating of contemporary European culture bearer's need for existence of the Divine, and also of his psychological readiness for new evolutional grade of understanding the sacred; c) importance of the operating of the conception "intonation image of the world" in the connection with the fact that the image of the world is an immanent virtue of culture as metapersonality.