Murray Edelman's Research on Political Symbolism

In our daily life, things with symbolic significance can be seen everywhere, they can stimulate people's political feelings, gather people's ideals and beliefs to change people's political behavior, and promote the change of national political operation state. Therefore, the study of political symbolism is of great significance for us to better understand the operation law of the political system. Murray Edelman, on the basis of summarizing the experience of predecessors in the study of political symbolism, criticized the thinking of instrumentalism in the study of political symbolism and regarded the whole political life as the application of political symbolism. He devoted his whole life to the study of political symbolism. From the study of the meaning of political symbolism to the types of political language to the combination of art and politics, Murray Edelman's political symbolism research process is long and tortuous. Therefore, Murray Edelman's thought of political symbolism provides us with valuable theoretical reference for the study of political symbolism in modern times. This paper will focus on Murray Edelman's thought of political symbolism, trying to reveal the symbolic characteristics of political life more clearly, restore Murray Edelman's academic thought system, so as to deepen the academic cognition of political symbolism.