J. Verne and H.G. Wells: two models of the development of western scientific and technical romanticism

The purpose of the research is to understand the creativity of J. Veme and H.G. Wells as the stage of development of the phenomenon of scientific and technical romanticism, presents the ratio of general and artistic ideologies, their role in the development of spiritual-ideological foundations of society and state in the new cultural and political environment, creating models of possible social and behavioral presentation of samples relationship with the surrounding world. The creativity of J. Verne and H.G. Wells are being investigated using the methodology developed by the author of the article in his earlier research and is considered from the point of view of three levels of ideal construction: political, ethical and anthropological ideal. In this way, the models of the ideal society, the ideal person, and the ethical system developed by these two writers are revealed. The thesis about the common ownership of J. Verne and H.G. Wells to the phenomenon of scientific and technical romanticism, which is a synthesis of three components: anthropological optimism, social scientism and humanistic technocratism, with their difference in the measure of scientological optimism/pessimism and a certain difference in temperament, the type of activity presence in the world. The author puts forward a hypothesis about the instrumental nature of the adventurous beginning in the works of J. Verne, acting as a kind of artistic language for representing not the worlds of adventure, but models of societies, ethical, but socio-political ideals offered as an alternative to the existing world.