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Thetitleofthetextreferstothecrisisofideas,and,therefore,therecan
beintroducedathesisthatliberaldemocracyasaformulaofassumptionsof
thesocio-politicalorderisbecomingexhaustedandinadequate.Itshouldbe
notedthatalltheproblemsofmoderndemocracywillnotbediscussedinthis
text.Itisalsonotimportanttodiscusseveryaspectofwhatmightbecalled
amodelofliberaldemocracy.Whatwouldthereforethesaidcrisisconsistof?
Thefirstissuewhichwillbeaddressedinthetextconcernstheadoptionbythe
stateandsocietyofthelogicofaction,whichisthe‘modusoperandi,ofthe
capitalisteconomy.Thesecondproblemconcernstheconceptofre-evaluation
oftheconceptofpoliticsandadoptionbythegoverningtheroleofmanagers
inselectedareasofthestate,astheyusethelogicof‘mixedrationality,(i.e.,
‘thelogicofpower,and‘thelogicofeconomicrationality,).Thelastissue
concernsthegrowingproblemsofthegovernmentsofdevelopedcountriesto
avoidtheproblemofdistributionofwealthinthecontextofsocialinjustice.
ThetextquotestheachievementsofI.Wallerstein1(intermsofrationality
anddevelopmentofthecapitalisteconomy),M.Weber2(intermsofrationality
andpolitics),L.Althusser3(intermsofreproductionoflabourandmeansof
production,apparatusesofstateviolenceandideologicalstateapparatuses),
Ch.Moufe(intermsofsuperficialunderstandingoftheconceptofagonism),
N.Fraser4(intermsofredistribution,recognitionandparticipation).Tobetter
understandtheappliedconceptof‘logicofeconomicrationality,thetextalso
refersinasyntheticwaytothedissertationsofM.Friedman5andR.Nozick6.
Moreover,todescribethepoliticalphenomenaandprocessesthetextuses
termsfromotherdisciplines,suchas‘dementiapraecox,.
2.Rationality,thelogicofthecapitalisteconomy
-the‘modusoperandi’
Theconceptof‘modusoperandi,wasappliedbyanAustrianjudgeH.
G.A.Gross,whowantedtodetermineinthiswaythecharacteristicsofthe
1I.Wallerstein,Koniecświatajakiznamy,Warsaw2004;I.Wallerstein,Europejski
uniwersalizm.Retorykawładzy,Warsaw2007.
2M.Weber,Gospodarkaispołeczeństwo,Warsaw2002.
3L.Althusser,Ideologieiaparatyideologicznepaństwa,in:http://www.filozofia.uw.edu.
pl/skfm/publikacje/althusser05.pdf,20October2011.
4N.Fraser,A.Honneth,Redystrybucjaczyuznanie?Debatapolityczno-filozoficzna,
Wrocław2005.
5M.Friedman,CapitalismandFreedom,Chicago2002.
6R.Nozick,Anarchy,State,andUtopia,Oxford1999.
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