Nikonova S.B. Policy of an aesthetic individual // Politics and Society. 2015. № 11. P. 1443-1451. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=54471

Nikonova S.B. Policy of an aesthetic individual

Abstract: The subject of this research is the possibility of political influence upon the situation of crisis of metaphysical foundations of the political order. In order to analyze the new foundations of the political action, we use the notion of the “aesthetic individual” as an expresser of the metaphysical paradigm, which has been formed due to the critical change taking place within the Kantian system. The author demonstrates that despite the antinomicity of the political position of the aesthetic individual, the critical analysis itself can become the foundation for political action ans overcome the relativistic crisis of the modern political thought. The concepts of Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt,Slavoj Žižek, and Alain Badiou are used as the basis of this research. The conclusion consists in the ability to analyze the processes that take place in the modern political philosophy by the virtue of aesthetics; it is namely the aesthetics that can thoroughly describe the foundations of the world outlook crisis within the modern culture. It is also demonstrated, how the aesthetic position can serve as the foundation for the new type of political action.

Keywords:

critical analysis, antinomicity, subjective judgement, metaphysical crisis, political action, political philosophy, aesthetic individual, aesthetics, intersubjectivity, political truth

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