European Cooperation (Apr 2018)
The Ideologeme and Mythologeme of the National Idea: Ukrainian Political and Philosophical Tradition in the Discourse of Modern Theory of Democracy (part one)
Abstract
The article generalizes the study of strategies of national and national state arrangement of Ukraine most widely spread in Ukrainian social, political and philosophical thought, journalistic writings, ideological doctrines after Ukraine gained its independence. The study explores the essence and perspectives of political influence of mythologemes and ideologemes such as «National idea», «national revival», «Ukrainian political nation» applying the methodology of the historical, comparative and systemic scientific approach.The ideological and theoretical basis of such analysis is explanatory and heuristic possibilities of the concept senses, actually paradigmatic models – «cultural» («nation of the people», «ethnic») and «political» («nation of the citizens», «civiс») nation that have become dominant both in modern political science (especially, in the theory of nation and nationalism) and world history of Modernism and Postmodernism. From the perspective of theoretical, regulatory, ideological and worldview guidelines, views, characteristic of their adepts, on the political, legislative and humanitarian measures concerning the alternatives of institutionalizing the statuses of ethnic-national, language and religious minorities and the majority in unitary western polities, the paper examines the content of the «nation’s ideas» and attempts to assess their capabilities as ideologemes of nation and state building: shaping the people’s common political culture, democratic national and patriotic awareness, stimulating or, vice versa, ruining the processes of consolidating and harmonizing the intergroup relations in the country. The article closely looks at the content and functional role of the concepts «Ukrainian national idea» by way of comparing their content and purposes with the guidelines and recommendations of the axiomatics of the liberal-democratic theory (especially, the conceptually proven normative principles of regulating life activities of national minorities in multinational western countries); positive experience of modern West-European and world national and national state building; challenges of the processes of globalizing national communities’ culture development, their political sovereignty, traditional national identities.
