An alternative or a variant of an existing standard? “Women’s World” in Mystical Autobiography by Marianna Marchocka, servant of God, Teresa of Jesus

The article analyses the Mystical Autobiography by Marianna Marchocka, showing the significance of her work for the research into the history of the female mentality in the Old Polish era. The main issue was to relate monastic life to the basic ideal of a woman as a wife and mother.

The article reveals the peculiarities of intercultural paradigmatic shifts in the philosophical and pedagogical thought of Ukraine in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It has been proven that Ukrainian philosophical and educational thought (despite the fact that it objectively bordered with the Russian one and actively fits into the pan-European philosophical and pedagogical algorithm) had a number of specific national concrete-cultural features and colours. Its image was closely related to the formation of the “soul of the Ukrainian people”, which was formed by a combination of mental, cultural and moral characteristics. The matrix of paradigmatic shifts in philosophical and pedagogical thought of this period was focused on the semantic, ontological dimensions of human spirituality, pedagogical factors of personality development, the formation of the national discourse of educational science as a certain theoretical integrity. It has been confirmed that the philosophical and pedagogical thought, which unfolded within the framework of socio-political development of scientific and educational institutions and which performed a human-creating function in culture, was characterized by a tendency to create an intercultural “philosophy of teaching and education”, which became the background for pedagogical constructions of our (that?) time. On this basis, the most important constants in the development of education of this period are determined, which have heuristic significance and are in many respects compliant with modern educational transformations, which require comprehensive understanding, primarily from the standpoint of pedagogical anthropology.

The article examines the story of one of the greatest contemporary writers, an exponent of his time, but also a deeply thinking, philosophizing writer, screenwriter, chairman of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan Anar, who created “urban prose” in domestic literature. And no matter what difficulties he has to face in his creative and administrative work, he still turns to the formulation of such traditional concepts as mentality, which significantly influences the life of his contemporary. Anar was one of the first writers who at one time put forward in Azerbaijani literature the idea of understanding life outside of Soviet ideology. Remembering that the core of the work is the author himself, his character, his state of mind and his intellect, in the process of creating new works the writer strives to rely on his life and creative experience in terms of showing a person’s ability to act, to which his life and creative experience is necessarily added.