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THE INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITY AS A CRITIC OF POLITICAL ELITES: GEORGIAN EXPERIENCE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 2010s
[Критика Грузинскими Интеллектуалами Политических Элит Во Второй Половине 2010-Х Гг]

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  • Kirchanov, Maksim (Кирчанов, Максим)

    (Voronezh State University)

Abstract

Introduction. The author believes that the relationship between power and intellectuals can range from the active participation of the intelligentsia in politics to the disillusionment of the intellectual community in politics and in the ruling elites. The author analyzes the process in Georgian contexts. It is assumed that politics as a process has ceased to attract public interest, despite a dynamic political life. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to analyze the process of public disillusionment with politics in the modern Georgian intellectual community. Methods. Methodologically, the article is based on the principles of analyzing intellectual communities with the elements of the universal method of historicism and a comparative approach, which make it possible to identify and systematize the main features of the process of depoliticization of Georgian society. Scientific novelty. The author presents a new interpretation of the role of intellectuals in the processes of social disappointment in politics, based on the analysis of original sources in the Georgian language. Results. It is presumed that 1) Georgian intellectual community in the second half of the 2000s began to lose active interest in its own participation in politics; 2) political parties are also forced to acknowledge the crisis of loyalty because the elites and society develop independently, and their interests coincide rarely; 3) culture became an alternative project that attracts civil society more than real politics; 4) the active political participation of the Church assists to the erosion of political culture, forcing intellectuals to become disillusioned with politics, perceived as a clannish and corrupt sphere of activity. Conclusions. It is shown that disillusionment with politics in the second half of the 2000s and the gradual migration of intellectuals to cultural practices replaced the politicization of intellectual communities, which determined the main vectors of Georgian development in the previous period.

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  • Kirchanov, Maksim (Кирчанов, Максим), 2021. "THE INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITY AS A CRITIC OF POLITICAL ELITES: GEORGIAN EXPERIENCE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 2010s [Критика Грузинскими Интеллектуалами Политических Элит Во Второй Половине 2010-Х Гг]," Sotsium i vlast / Society and power, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, pages 22-31.
  • Handle: RePEc:rnp:spower:sp2102
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