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Discussion

Global changes in higher education (internationalization, mobility, democratization, diversification, commercialization, etc.) contribute to the growth of academic social responsibility (Academic Social Responsibility, 2018). It is about responsibility not only in the academic sphere (teaching, research) but also about the impact of education on society mainly through the education of citizens and educational work. The expression of the public dimension of education contributes to the legitimation of the values ​​of the modern nation-state.

In the realities of the hybrid war Ukrainian society burdened by post-totalitarian and post-colonial heritage, the role of intellectuals in public space is insignificant. In Soviet totalitarian society, the intellectual resource of legitimation was subordinated to ideology. Accordingly, the principle of the autonomy of the mind in the USSR was destroyed, and the function of its bearer - the intellectual - was subordinated to the ideological task of maintaining the totalitarian rule. Post-totalitarian distrust of the intellectual is exacerbated by the postcolonial syndrome when the achievements of Ukrainian science are largely attributed to either Russia or the USSR. Growth of academic social responsibility helps academic communities, on the one hand, have a chance to restore the confidence of Ukrainian society in national values and ideals, and on the other - in reason, science and progress.