Their Role in Development, Evolution and Crisis of Political Modernity

Abstract

The article is focused on new understanding of Modernity as a synthesis of civil/​structural and religious/nonstructural forms of communality. Civil and religious types of community are considered as two basic components of modern sociality, cycli­cally supporting and replacing each other as the social space expands and new civi­lizational segments are included in it. Based on the work of a number of researchers, the author hypothesizes that at the present stage the crisis of Modernity is connected with the limits of existing forms of civic/structural communication in providing a real connection and inclusion of different cultures and societies on modern stage of Glob­alization. The development of new nonstructural emotional forms of social identifi­cation, based on compassion could prevent split of global community and prepare global social space for another step of civic/structural integration.