NATION AS A SUBJECT OF THE CULTURAL-HISTORICAL PROCESS
The article examines the problem of nation as a subject of the cultural and historical process, its specific features, its impact on the structures of the modern world order. A set of previously, inviolable social communities, institutions, as well as the connections between them, are today characterized by extreme instability, vagueness of borders, marginalization. Such a "runaway world" leads to the constant construction of new subjectities and the destruction of old ones. A nation in this capacity experiences the ambiguous influence of globalization processes and is one of the parties expressing the contradictory mutual influence of the universal and the particular. We cannot agree that the subjectivity of a nation can only be reduced to a political component. First of all, it is necessary to note the reverse effect of national-ethnic factors on the relations of power, the impact that has recently manifested itself more clearly and at times becomes decisive. The subjectivity of the nation goes far beyond the political field of modern society and by its nature is, rather, ethno-political.