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LIBERAL AND COMMUNITARIAN CONCEPTION OF IDENTITY TOWARD ANALYSIS OF IDENTITY OF THE CROATIAN SOCIETY
Rade Kalanj
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The paper points out as a topic the difference and discourse dispute between liberal and communitarian view of identity,
starting from the thesis that this dispute is in the limelight of contemporary theoretical and research debates. Therefore,
the author in the first place points out to principal differences between these two standpoints, in which process it is more
insisted on recent communitarian critiques, corrections or amendments of liberalism, from which it is deducible that
liberal concept of individual peculiarity is to short for understanding the societal articulation of identity. After that, starting from the above-mentioned debate, the author gives us one possible model for the analysis of the Croatian society.
Having in mind the transitional and newly created ethnic and national framework, the author supports the standpoint
that within current debates on identity, communitarian statements prevail. From a typological viewpoint, these
statements have a three-fold quality: that of cultural and essentialism, then of political and differentiality, and that of
expressive and designer quality. They have been analysed one by one, and at the end it has been concluded on projective
and communitarian perspective of the identity theme.
Ključne riječi
communitarianism; community; Croatia; culture; identity; image; individualism; individuality; language; liberalism; tradition; values
Hrčak ID:
9097
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.1.2005.
Posjeta: 2.604 *