Symbol in the Modern Trends of Social Reality

Abstract

Postmodern philosophical paradigm redefines previously defined concepts and frames of the symbol. As a relatively new independent phase in the development and interpretation of the symbol, the philosophy of postmodernism formulates the so-called “non-classical” interpretation of the symbol as a new alternative which has been continued in the philosophy of poststructuralism. From the point of view of “epistemological doubt”, the symbol gradually loses its ontological basis, it turns into a “pure” semiotic sign, into a linguistic game, a way of creation of hyperreality – a simulator. Conversion is subjected to the representative, ontological, epistemological descriptors of the symbol and change is subjected to such conceptual context within which “the symbol” as a philosophical concept previously specified its content.