Modern political myth: socio-ontological analyses

Relevance. The appeal to the topic of socio-ontological research of political myth is caused by the fact that in the conditions of rapidly becoming more complicated socio-political reality and the emergence of qualitatively new entities of social and political existence, conceptually holistic approaches to the study of political myth are practically not covered in Russian and world literature against the background of many political science, linguistic and socio-cultural studies.

The purpose is to reveal the ontological essence of the political myth within the framework of its theoretical and practical application, taking into account the specifics of the social processes taking place in modern world politics.

Оbjectives: to study the history of formation and the main approaches to the definition of the concept of "political myth"; to give a refined definition of the concept of "political myth" within the framework of our research; to conduct a categorical analysis of individual aspects of modern political reality; to formulate recommendations on the socio-ontological interpretation of modern political myth and work with it in world politics, diplomacy and public life.

Methodology. Categorical-logical, system-structural, dialectical method, as well as hermeneutical and semantic analysis were used as a methodological basis.

Results. The principles, strategies and approaches of social ontology in relation to the modern realities of world politics are analyzed.

Conclusions. The results of our analysis have shown that the phenomenon of political myth has its own history of formation and study mainly in its connection with sociological, political science, socio-philosophical, socio-psychological and psycholinguistic studies. In the framework of this study, through the prism of social ontology, we consider both the dynamics and invariants of the processes of mythologization and myth-making, which are in a state of transition from "unipolarity" to "multipolarity". This is how we come to understand the political myth as a system of attributive and modal "coordinates" that define a model of a socio-political phenomenon or process in the context of power relations (co) subordination. The results obtained can be applied in lawmaking, diplomatic activities, "demythologization" and "peremythologization", teaching various courses, for example, on social and political philosophy.

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