WAR AND IDENTITY CRISIS: The problem of defining the subject
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Keywords:
identity, identity crisis, war, freedom, presumptionAbstract
The essay explores the impact of the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine on general worldview and anthropological categories. The author particularly addresses the issue of identity crisis among Russians who simultaneously oppose the war and consider themselves patriots. The legitimacy of applying formal definitions to certain subjects in public life is examined, alongside the reasons for the growing use of the concept of ‘identification’ as an attempt to appropriately replace formal definitions in discourse surrounding these subjects. The article argues that the notion of an 'identity crisis' takes precedence over the concept of identity itself, highlighting its genetic link to war as a social phenomenon.
Additionally, the author investigates the significance of legal categories such as presumptions in shaping intersubjective certainty and their relationship to the process of identifying individuals and human associations. Changes in the use of these concepts during wartime are also discussed
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Andros, Ye.I. (Ed.). (2015). Specificity and Defining Dimensions of Modern Philosophical and Anthropological Knowledge (2015). [H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, NAS of Ukraine]. Kyiv: Stylos.
Decombes, V. (2015). Hassle with Identity. [In Ukrainian]. Kyiv: Stylos.
Erikson, E. (1986 [1950]). Childhood and Society. 3 ed. Norton.
Kiriukhin, D.I. (2021). Discourses of Justice in a Historical Context. [In Ukrainian]. Kyiv: Stylos.
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