FEATURES OF THE POLITICAL THEORIES OF MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY
Journal Title: Історичний архів. Наукові студії - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 19
Abstract
The article deals with the features of the culture of modernity and postmodernity in relation to the genesis and maintenance of political theories. The term «modern» is the aggregate designation of the epoch of new and modern times to the period of postmodernism. In the political theories the birth of modernism most notably manifested in the works of Machiavelli. Among the political attributes of modernity the central place are occupied by rationalism and the exclusion of theology from politics, the apology of Mind, the belief in its omnipotence and the ability of man to transform society (and nature) in accordance with his ideas, comprehensive materialism and determinism, humanism, conceptual certainty of doctrines, pragmatism, empiricism, the development of projects for changing society and the system of state power, eurocentrism and so on. The political theory of modernism aspired to scien-tific knowledge of political reality, the elaboration of concepts that shape a perfect society on the basis of bourgeois ideology – often in the form of democracy, the creation of various doctrines of struggle for the building of a just so-ciety, a purposeful change in the principles of political life. Postmodern is the concept of a diverse perception of the world in the era of post-industrialism, based on distrust of the rationalistic traditional concepts of modernism and questioning the adequacy of the reflection of reality in the mind of a person. The paper marked the main theoretical and conceptual approaches to the study of the political doctrines of the early XXI century. The key attributes of postmodern political science are the departure from the former dominance of rationalism, the rejection of the exal-tation of the Mind, the recognition of the transcendent, unprecedented pluralism, the rejection of ideals and values that occurred in the previous era. The modernist apology for uncertainty includes nonlinearity and multivariance of development, the naturalness of randomness and abnormality, unpredictable anomalies and alternatives. Particular attention is paid to the appearance in the political science of our days of so-called «hybrid» concept models.
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V. Kurillo
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