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Смысл власти и власть смысла: прагмасемантика соотношения политической власти и смыслообразования
The emergence and retention of political power presupposes the formation of a certain semantic picture of the world, which explains and justifies the orders implemented by this power. The dominance of such a semantic picture of the world is the basis for the legitimacy of power, the consolidation of society, and a common identity. The semantic worldview is multi-layered and dynamic; not only the political class, but also the humanities, the education system, and personal experience take part in its formation. This process can be represented by the pragmasemantic approach as a cascade of interfaces (contexts) of meaning formation, each of which is operationalized as a value-regulatory system (VRS). From this point of view, the political power appears as the main VRS, which, in order to justify the influence on the ordering of others, claims to have the dominant semantic picture of world. The proposed conceptual analysis is based on the content presented in the five-volume collection of V.P. Makarenko, who did a thorough job of systematizing the ideas and concepts of political science in its current state, revealing the paradox and inconsistency of the theoretical constructions of political science. Analytics leads to the conclusion that understanding the concept of political power at the level of general concepts leads to a paradoxical analogue of theodicy or the set of all sets in the foundations of mathematics. Without power, individuals cannot form a community necessary to achieve the good of each of them, but at the same time, any power is a restriction, suppression of subjectivity. Therefore, just as in theodicy or in the foundations of mathematics, specific meaningful characteristics are applicable not to power in general, but to its specific manifestations. The society development need the constructive variability of the reality comprehension and need the power organization formats, capable of generating and maintaining such variability, are important. Thus, political theory also needs a transition from operating with general abstractions to a constructive understanding of the procedural and operational nature of politics in relation to specific societies, taking into account their current problems and historical experience. This topic acquires a non-trivial significance in our days, when the formats of the VRS in management, business, science, education, art, and personal life are radically changing.