THE POLITICAL MECHANICS AND ITS DIALECTIC: TOWARD A NEW THEORY OF POLITICS Cover Image

POLITIČKA MEHANIKA I NJENA DIJALEKTIKA – U SUSRET JEDNOJ NOVOJ TEORIJI POLITIKE
THE POLITICAL MECHANICS AND ITS DIALECTIC: TOWARD A NEW THEORY OF POLITICS

Author(s): Neven Cvetićanin
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Politics and society, History and theory of political science, Social Theory, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Filozofsko društvo Srbije
Keywords: Political Mechanics; Dialectic; thesis; antithesis; synthesis; formal models; empirical forms; political ideas/ideologies; comparative analysis;

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a outline for a new theory of politics, in terms of the offer of a new theoretical apparatus ie. new methodological pattern for a comparative analysis of political ideas and concepts. The paper presents the concept of the so-called Political Mechanics and explains its historical Dialectic due to which the different political ideas/ideologies can be classified by the place they occupied in the historical process. This allows new understanding of the political ideas/ideologies in a new way, no longer as an abstract ideas without any historical foundation but as a specific products of historical process, ie. only within a particular historical context in which they occurred. This context is determined by the Political Mechanics and its Dialectic, whose functioning is described in this paper.

  • Issue Year: 57/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 63-85
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Serbian