This article is an attempt to determine the probable dependence degree between the state images as a body (the so-called «body politics»), which are reflected in the texts of the significant representatives of the Ukrainian intellectual elite in the first half of the twentieth century and various factors of political (ideological) and biological (generational) order. In order to find out the extent of this dependence within the framework of one decisive generation, the conceptual texts of two

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... riking representatives, standing on different ideological platforms, were selected: V. Lypynskyі born in 1882 («conservative centrism») and D. Dontsov born in 1883 (integral nationalism). In the case of «body politic» identity within one biological generation (V. Lypynskyі and D. Dontsov) it is concluded that its dependence on the cohort factor. In case of divergencefrom ideological. Research is primarily based on a quantitative approach, which is usually ignored in traditional «body politic» studies.