Voegelinowska koncepcja symboli politycznych. Teoria i zastosowania
Voegelin’s notion of political symbols. Theory and application

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the theoretical category of political symbols as proposed and developed by Eric Voegelin. The main focus is the usefulness of political symbols for politics, political analysis, and law. The original element of this study is a description of the genesis of the concept with a special focus on Voegelin’s early works, which are rarely mentioned in other similar analyses. The study concludes that political symbols are a theoretical tool that opens new avenues of research and can facilitate public dialogue in modern societies. Voegelin’s political symbols overcome the division into religion and ideologies. Moreover, the theory avoids some of the pitfalls that are characteristic of Carl Schmitt’s philosophy and enables a more nuanced analysis than the one based on the Huntingtonian category of civilizations.

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