THE INDIVIDUAL´S IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
Renáta Kišoňová
Pages: 232-238
Published: 22 Oct 2024
DOI: 10.62991/LIS1996427466
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Abstract: The aim of submitted paper is to analyze the problem of identity in contemporary society and to show how dynamic, multi-layred and divergent can identity of an individual be. I will focus on the question what identity means in contemporary society and how an individual creates it continuously. In addition to philosophical, sociological and anthropological reflections on identity, the basis of my reflections will be the exploration of identity according to Susan Faludi, a contemporary journalist and documentary writer. The latter examines in detail the identity of her own father, who changed his gender from male to female at the age of 76, although he does not seem to have achieved the true fulfillment of his own search for identity. In the following text, we will discuss selected perspectives on the problem of identity in philosophy (Descartes, Locke, Damasio) and later we will move on to the investigation of identity in the context of gender in connection with cultural conditioning.
Keywords: self-identification, identity, gender, society, susan faludi, descartes, binarity
Cite this article: Renáta Kišoňová. THE INDIVIDUAL´S IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY. Journal of International Scientific Publications: Language, Individual & Society 18, 232-238 (2024). https://doi.org/10.62991/LIS1996427466
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