THE TOUCHING. THE PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT THE PHILOSOPHER'S ORAL HISTORIES (Dotork. Prezentatsia proektu 'Usni istorii filosofiv'

The authoress presents the oral history project 'Touching' carried out under the aegis of the Institute of Philosophy, NAS of Ukraine. The presentation is based on the authoress' experience of participating in data collection in the network of the project 'Survivors of the Shoah', and interviewing well known Kievan philosophers Vilen Horskyi, Serghii Krymskyi, and Petro Yolon. The authoress substantiates own understanding of the sense and essence of oral history as a scientific trend and actual approach in the branch of history of the recent Ukrainian philosophy. The message concerns designing new item section within the theme plan of the 'Filosofska Dumka'. This section under the heading 'Exempla' is to be devoted to materials of the oral history of Ukrainian philosophical community