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The Crisis And Reconstruction Of Self-Identity In The View Of Modernization

Posted on:2010-03-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y XiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360278461873Subject:Marxist philosophy
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Self - identity is concern, confirmations and understanding of people self ,and the balance of relation between self and society. Self - identity in pre-modern is not a crisis to study. Modernistic society, nation– state's values is waned for an individual's significance in the global development. Rapid social changes on people own understanding existence and location to less and less clear, so as to produce a self - identity crisis. This kind of crisis has become a reality of social problems in modernity conditions. Based on inherited the philosophy inherent dependent, scholars gave an active interest in this reality of social problems. In the process of discussion with self - identity, topics involved in ethics, paradigm and value terms are reflected the substantive changes between people and people, people and society, people with themselves, in an the background of life frame transformation change since the start of industrial society . This situation generate scholar's permanent study upsurge."Modernity"mainly refers to a mental attitudes and behavior patterns linked in industrial society. Taylor from human life to save and return to authenticity ideal perspective of this kind of mental attitudes and behavior analysis from the 17th century since the entire modern time within the framework of human culture and social"decline"the theme of the mankind since the industrial society since"modernity"has three hidden worries. is the risk of individualism, instrumentalism rational rampant and softness of autoeroticism of these three worries in complex conditions occur under modern social interactions, only humans self-identity arisen the typical characterization of crisis of meaninglessness, continuity interruption, lost and personality subject ship.In the impact of modernity, the self-identity crises and social changes in the internal mechanism has profound relevance. With a view, as the view of modern self-identity of the common causes for the crisis lies in the fact that modern society has led to spatial and temporal dissociation of the loss of self-certainty; the words out of order in modern society have led to disruption of self-continuity; alienation of modern society led to the main the independence of the self-abatement; the existence of modern society have led to self-confrontation weak integration; modern society has led to self-oriented multi-directional lost. We have to resolve the mechanisms of modern society brought about by this kind of self-identity crisis, it is necessary to the activities of their own from the start to deal with and change. First of all, we have to change the way things look and the way into the value of evaluation, remodeling the basis value of self-identity. Secondly, it is necessary to go beyond dualistic thinking and the development schema of without groups to integrate the tension of self-identity structure. Finally, we should be good grasp of the multiple life choices and the fate of the richest moment, planning the development of the path of self-identity.Contemporary Chinese society has a unique self-identity crisis is mainly caused by a huge social changes accelerated changes the people in a sense of identity since the reform and opening up, a unique type of development and the economic situation of the people led to the identity crisis and modern Western culture's impact on Chinese society. To resolve this kind of self-identity crisis, to adjust and guide the self-identification in a harmonious socialist society, it is necessary to strengthen the media to maintain public to go through a self-identification of the function; play individual care for the Humanities of public institutions to self-identification; pay attention to the official community's guide of the self-identity value orientation; clear the source life of the traditional culture; lay the material basis of digestion to identity crisis.
Keywords/Search Tags:modernity, self, -, identity, crisis, reconstruction
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