Abstract

The paper analyzes the forms of dialogical interaction between politics and art in the context of the worldview paradigm of the Modern time. The category of mind is defined as the backbone element of the paradigm of rationalism of the New time along with its basic features. It is being argued that in ontological sense the concept of mind is identical to necessary, substantial laws under the surface of sensory available phenomena; in epistemological sense the mind correlates with analytical and synthetic method of cognition, and in the worldview sense it is equal to the organizing principle of World-order. Main features of the embodiment of the New time rationalism in political theories are outlined, including the interpretation of the concepts of natural condition of mankind and social contract as the necessary implications of the application of epistemological mind to sociopolitical reality. The specificity of the rationalistic anthropology is disclosed, along with the understanding of an individual as part of social system. The main principles of the aesthetics of rationalism are defined and the classicist style as aesthetical correlate of rationalism is characterized. Main features of the classicist aesthetics are postulated: normativeness, geometrism, consistency, etc. On this basis the principles of dialogical interaction between politics and art in the worldview paradigm of rationalism are established, including: 1. the equality of these spheres in their relationship to mind; 2. their rationalistic formal and substantial normativity; 3. correlation in the context of rationalistic anthropology.