THE SEARCH FOR THE MISSION OF THE UNIVERSITY IN THE CONDITIONS OF CIVILIZATION RIFTS

The article is devoted to the analysis of discussion context, in center which search for missionof university conditions changes and transformations a global character. focus was on literaturedevoted topic education transformations, university's mission idea, inparticular. authors present central ideas well-known specialists field philosophy,narrower philosophy education, sociology, epistemology order isolate points ofthe discussion, their criticism, pluralistic its content, characteristic each point correlated with problem. Atthe same time, possible main trajectories further problems are described andevaluated. most important latest ones this direction understanding societal ona scale, new opportunities intellectual cognitive space associated changing concepts thinking,preservation best values Modern era, strengthen characteristics humanity. It shownthat only case possibility remains University fulfil formation humanefuture.