Hussein Harsij; Hejrat Izadi
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2013, , Pages 135-161
Abstract
Today, due to superiority of modernist spirit, phenomena, to define their identities, have to identify their relations to modern and postmodern elements. Modernity, with its emphasis on rationalism, created a world that ignored invisible dimensions of being. Postmodernism involves a new approach to the ...
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Today, due to superiority of modernist spirit, phenomena, to define their identities, have to identify their relations to modern and postmodern elements. Modernity, with its emphasis on rationalism, created a world that ignored invisible dimensions of being. Postmodernism involves a new approach to the notion of identity, at odds with the modern tendency of foundationalism. Foucault, Laclau, and Mouffe, as affirmative post-moderns, argue that any discourse, with creation of its special regime of truth and the determination and formation of identities, keeps something in every context and eliminates some other stuff. They believe that to overcome modern identity crisis, caused by absolutism, it is necessary to reduce structural determination of modern world; however, they eventually conceded that the modern world cannot escape from the constraints of modern self-established structures. This paper studies the general solutions offered by post-moderns for overcoming such a crisis, with the analysis of factors responsible for creating identity crisis in modern world. It also, by emphasizing on theories of Foucault, Laclau, and Mouffe and by utilizing descriptive method, analyzes postmodern statements in knowledge, power, and politics, as the creator of modern world. Finally, by utilizing analytical method, this study finds out the relationships among these statements for saving modern human being from identity crisis.
