CARNIVAL POLITICAL CULTURE: SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS OF THE THEATER OF THE ABSURD
Considering the carnival political culture as a kind of universal sum, we proceed from the fact that its revealed features and properties are manifested in a certain set of sequence at all times and in all political communities entering a period of crisis and decline. Certain elements of this political culture may appear in the era of genesis and flourishing of the system as abnormal deviations from the norm. But in general, the process of carnivalization of political reality that has begun can be viewed by us as the first signal of a crisis in the political system and a reason for the elites themselves to change tactics and revise the strategy of their professional behavior. The crisis of political systems can be measured by the depth of rooting and the breadth of dissemination of political carnival culture, primarily in the ruling elite circles. As political history testifies, in the conditions of carnival political culture, the subjects of the elites change their properties, cultural tastes and psychological attitudes, which leads to a general distortion of the goals and methods of their professional activities. Here we can see “other”, rather “alien” than “the own”. In this regard, political elitology solves the problem of determining the norms and categories of carnival political culture, establishing the patterns of its development and analyzing the impact it has on politics in general and the ruling elites in particular. The relevance of this problem determines the object and subject of this re-search: the object of this work is carnival political culture, and the subject is the subjects of political carnival. To solve the above mentioned problem the author resorts to a set of methods (dialectics, hermeneutics, comparative studies, semiotics) which make it possible to carry out complex in-depth diagnostics of the object under study.