Identity: A Heritage from the Past or a Choice for the Future?
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Abstract:
Is identity a heritage inherited from the past or a choice for the future? In this question, the concept of time is presupposed. Thus, my point of departure is analyzing the concept of time. Then the relation between the concept of time and social theory will be examined to maintain that sociology is the science of space rather than the science of time. History, however, is the science of time which, in its Hegelian version, has a strong connection with the paradigm of the philosophy of consciousnesses. This paradigm would not allow sociology to be established, because sociology is the theory of action rather than the theory of consciousness. For this very reason, the establishment of sociology in the late nineteenth century was contemporaneous with the crisis of the philosophy of consciousness. The focal point of this crisis was the concept of subject, which itself was both the base of modern philosophy and the focus of modern society. But Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Romanticist Movement radically criticized the concept of subject and thus brought about crisis for modern society. The establishment of sociology was a response to such a crisis. It was a turning point by which we became aware of the heaviness and harmfulness of tempocentrism and instead point to the usefulness of topocentrism. After this theoretical discussion, some problems of tempocentristic approach to identity in Iranian social science will be referred to show how this approach is laden with the past, and therefore, unable to regard the future. The Iranian social sciences inability to develop an action theory seems to be rooted in its tempocentrism. In order to find a way out of this dead-end and open some new horizons in the sphere of theory and practice, the Iranian sociology need to throw down the approach to identity as a heritage from the past and adopt it as a choice for the future. Finally, I will discuss rational identity and its relation to social science.
Keywords:
identity , time , space , social theory , action theory
Language:
Persian
Published:
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Volume:9 Issue: 3, 2017
Pages:
111 to 123
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