Humanitarian-anthropological Aspects of Contemporary Education (Philosophical Analysis)

The author presents the philosophical conceptual foundations of an individual of a modern era in the context of his involvement in humanitarian and educational processes. The essence of an individual is introduced as a reflective center of a modern culture. The author analyzes the main features of the cultures of modernity and postmodernity in their conjunction with the corresponding changes in human life and the possibilities for the socio-cultural identification. The author notes the radically transformed nature of the real social relations in the era of modernity era, now gravitating towards simulative relations of the postmodernity, as reflected in education and culture.