Bushanskyi V. Aesthetics of Political Power: the Notion, Methodology of Investigation and Historical Phenomenology.

The dissertation is devoted to the political and aesthetic phenomenology examination. Its direct subject is political power aesthetics. The latter is disclosed as a phenomenon, the perception of which is determined by the objective cognitive regularities. These very patterns, accordingly, have impact on the political subjects' activity. Thus such a cause-effect connection is being traced: cognitive regularities, aesthetic perception of some political notions, political activity that is realized according to the certain aesthetic image of politics. The thesis deals with such basic issues: theoretical and methodological grounds of politico-aesthetic phenomena, the correlation of political existence and conscience, the impact of mythic and historical world picture on the perception of political phenomena, the possibility of using aesthetic categories in the process of aesthetic political manifestations' analysis.The investigation under consideration gave grounds to the following inferences: political science examines political aesthetic phenomena in the form of the phenomenon of symbolic politics. Within the borders of the latter aesthetic patterns prevail over proper political ones. Aesthetic perception, first of all, influences the establishment of powerful conscience which, in its turn, reveals itself as matriarchal and patriarchal cognitive types. Political and aesthetic phenomena are perceived by the subject due to the delusion mechanism that in the process of uncertain mastering of aesthetic images presents itself in the form of some proper values, and namely - behavioral and cognitive stereotypes. History views political and aesthetic phenomenology as myths, teleological conceptions, totalitarian and democratic rituals.