The Philosophical and Anthropological Value of Art in Culture

The article rethinks the philosophical and anthropological value of the self-movement of art, which is functionally significant for a person, in culture. The authors of the article following the anthropological-and-axiological methodology develop the cultural idea of M. S. Kagan who defined the chain of functional relations of art in the structure of being, at the center of which is culture, and offer their transformation of the model of the multifunctional essence of art. The transformation is made in such a way as to show that the person who creates art “absorbs” nature, society and cultural heritage, promoting cultural development into the future: man-nature-society-culture-art. For the authors, the philosophical and anthropological value of art in the human world consists of its self-sufficient form of being in culture. The authors pay attention to the interpretation of the concept of art in the subject field of culture due to the transformations of art itself in the change of paradigms of the global world, in which many probabilities and possibilities of the existence of art are guessed. In the authors’ treatment, art is a way of being in the human world, a valuable interaction of a person with the world, thanks to the totality of functional relationships. The objective of this article is to present the philosophical and anthropological value of art as a problem, since the present-day postmodern situation in the cultural movement of human existence complicates art forms, and the value of art itself is often considered in the tradition of epistemology and ontology.