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Semantička spona između političkog čina i političkog iskustva
The Semantic Link Between Political Acting and Political Experience

Author(s): Davor Rodin
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Semantics, Hermeneutics
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Semantic; Political Acting; Political Experience;

Summary/Abstract: The source of the semantic link between political acting and political experience is the hermeneutic situation of the contemporary citizen as a member of a state community. Political experience is matter of experience transformed by education, value patterns, tradition, and custom; it is stylized in several ways. On the basis of "political writing" formed in that way political acting as a process of its interpretation is taking place. Political acting can be distinguished as routine (tradition) and original (innovation). This distinction also marks the camps in the contemporary philosophy of politics: 1) theories of hermeneutic scientism that operate with the anachronistic concepts of explanation and 2) occasionalist, decisionist and contingent theories of acting conservative-liberal theories of political acting. The semantic link between political knowledge and political acting is the ability to distinguish the changed states within these media.

  • Issue Year: XXV/1988
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 62-71
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Croatian