FORMATION OF PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE AS A METHODOLOGICAL BASIS HUMANITARIAN KNOWLEDGE
The article analyzed and systematized the main points of view on the nature and objectives of the philosophy of culture, the main stages of the philosophy of culture as a methodological basis of the humanities considered, methodological importance of Neokantianism and the school of German philosophy "Philosophy of life" for the development of cultural philosophy XX century defined, the possible value of the ideas of Wilhelm Dilthey to address contemporary problems of the philosophy of culture based. Present state of the cultural sciences is defined as problematic and to search for new methodological approaches to emerging complex cultural phenomena. Philosophy of culture considered as the basis for the development of the methodological foundations of modern study of socio-cultural phenomena. As a possible basis for a new methodology proposes an approach of Wilhelm Dilthey, in line with which possible to combine the philosophical, psychological, and ethnographic methods for the study of culture and its phenomena.