About the book: 2010 / The book contains articles on topical issues of political theory, which are at the center of discussions among domestic and foreign philosophers and social scientists. The author of the book makes an attempt to rethink such categories of political philosophy as civil society, civilization, political violence, revolution, nationalism. The historical and philosophical articles in the collection explore the genesis and development paths of the main ideological trends of our time, primarily liberalism. A special place is occupied by a series of essays devoted to theoretical problems of morality and the moral dimension of political life. The book is polemical in nature and is intended for everyone who seeks to understand politics as something more sublime and tragic than PR, political technology and, in the words of Harold Lasswell, the definition of “ who gets what, when and how».