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Khokhlova D.D..
Reinterpretation of politics in the context of metamodernism
// Politics and Society. – 2017. – № 10.
– P. 48-58.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0684.2017.10.22610.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0684.2017.10.22610
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Abstract:
The object of this work is the relevant philosophical grounds of politics, while the subject is the deliberative, post-anarchic, and postmodern impact upon the modern political theory. For achieving the set goal the author specifies the following tasks: determine the prerequisites for new political theory; examine the direct phenomenon of metamodernism; identify its influence on the politics; define the key terms of new politics. Special attention is given to consideration of the growing importance of the political influence (substituting violence), cooperative management (management on the basis of cooperation), horizontalization of connections, deideologization of politics, desacralization and demythologization of the absolute power. The author reviews the modern political concepts that qualify for the development of alternative political reality during the new postmodern era. The scientific novelty of this article consists in the fact that the examined phenomenon revealed itself only by 1990’s, the language and conceptual apparatus that reflect the specificities of metamodernism are just developing, thus this topic can manifest as invitation into the new discursive practice. Author’s special contribution lies in appealing to the post-anarchism as a new and timely political phenomenon reflecting the relevant sociopolitical trends. The study reveals not just the linguistic foundation of the new theory, but also the currently developing applied political models, the implementation of which can be observed on the example of the global political processes. The conclusion is made on the efficiency of cooperative model of political management (as a leading concept of political metamodernism) in comparison with other democratic models. Elitism, vertical connections, and absolute power gradually fade to the populism and massiveness, horizontalism and influence. The boundaries of the political blur in the context of political processes, institutions and actors, as well as ideas. Metamodernism in essence has a liminal nature and high level of uncertainty as its natural state, in terms of which the post-truth comes in full force. All of the aforementioned factors affect the politics that transforms at the level of language, as well as ideology and realization of political will.
Keywords: horizontalism, partisipism, post-politics, minarchism, influence, post-truth, post-anarchism, metamodernism, participative economy, politics of participation
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