Myth in Umberto Eco's philosophical system

The aim of the research is to analyze and determine the meaning of myth as a special cultural and philosophical phenomenon in Umberto Eco's philosophical paradigm. During the analysis, a number of U. Eco's texts were examined, which reflect the system of his views on myth and mythologized elements of culture and history. The scientific novelty of the research consists in reconstructing and describing the specifics of the philosophical system of views of U. Eco's texts on the role of myth and mythologized elements in the context of cultural and historical processes of the past and present. As a result of the research, it was established how exactly U. Eco interprets historical and cultural facts from the point of view of the mythologized basis initially embedded in them, why, from the philosopher's point of view, it is possible to consider myth as a special phenomenon of the postmodern era, and also why myth is an "open text" and what features (frames) are inherent in it.