Jednostka jako 'pas transmisyjny' między mitologią narodową a kulturą systemu międzynarodowego

Abstract

In the article Author presents an innovative attempt to bind the perspective of the Individual as a carrier of national mythologies’ narrations and the concept of a role of political leaders in International Relations. Basing on the constructivist paradigm and referring to an theoretical output of cultural anthropology he explains the possibility of researching the influence of the Individual as a ‘transmission belt’ by the three-steps method. Focusing on the social-shared knowledge and the symbolic communication Author depicts the influence of the myth and adopts his concept to the Alexander Wendt’s social constructivism paradigm. The article is supplemented by a case study of the US President George W. Bush, who is presented as a ‘transmission belt’ of the Myth of American Exceptionalism in a context of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.