Post-ideology of Post-liberalism: Genesis, Essence, Purpose
The article examines the theoretical basis of the post-ideology phenomenon as the key element of pseudo-rationality in political and sociocultural reality of post-liberal society. Pseudo-rationality is defined as the result of the deformation of the most important kinds of knowledge in the modernist epoch, and it appears to be the result not of the development process of knowledge transdisciplinarity, computer dependence expansion and everyday existence virtualization, but of the artificial synthesis of separate characteristics of various forms of extrascientific rationality. The author examines pseudo-rationality manifestations in the easy transition into one another of pseudoscientific, post-(pseudo-)philosophic and post-ideological doctrines, that are meant to convince the society in the positivity of national state dismantling, technobiological inequality and spiritual and bodily dehumanization. He substantiates the direct connection of pseudo-rationality with ideological products of post-modernity. Post-ideology that defies the culture unity and ideological content, at the same time pursues the thesis of westernized globalization inevitability and positivity; causes artificial conflicts and creates censorship mechanisms. He comes to the following conclusion: as the flexibility and indistinctness of the boarders among separate pseudo-rationality types are higher than those of their rational analogs, post-ideology gives unlimited possibilities of manipulation to the subjects of ideological process.