Traverse T.M. The Problem of Subjectness of Political Thinking

Abstract: The subject of this work is the political thinking structure. In the modern world the psychological characteristic of subjectivity as a property of political thinking acquires a new understanding that conditions the relevance of this study. We consider that one of the defining aspects for psychology of political thinking is the position in relation to its content. The author considers in detail the subject political field, in which the political actor (subject in politics), serves as the bearer of certain meanings and senses. Therefore, the subjectivity of political tasks being solved, first of all, is determined by the social-cultural conditions and types of the executed political activity. The system-strategic conception of political thinking, in which it is considered through three components (cognitive, operational, and regulatory-personal), was elaborated and analysed from the anglet of the following properties: subjectivity, practicality, conceptuality, and creativity, which were organized systemically and strategically determined. The subjectivity of thinking is provided by separation of the relevant material by the actor and its inclusion into the corresponding thought forms. Upon the change of content the structure of political thinking also gets rearranged. Not only the sequence of tactics is changed in the system of thinking strategies, but also the content of thinking operations in the structure of tactics. At that some tactics acquire dominant meaning, and the form of thinking action is changed. The complexities emerging in the implementation of the thinking action on the concrete political material, point out the qualitative specificity of the systemic-strategic content of thinking activity and necessity of its substantial rearrangement upon the change of subsubject of the thought.

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