Abstract
The “exteriority” of unidimensional devices to identify the self, motivated this scholar to offer an intellectual construct to “simulate” the “contextual-based” and plural identity of the self in the Caspian basin countries.
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Abstract
The “exteriority” of unidimensional devices to identify the self, motivated this scholar to offer an intellectual construct to “simulate” the “contextual-based” and plural identity of the self in the Caspian basin countries. Built upon Saussaurian “syntagmatic axis,” he offers a “correspondence discoursive” construct. Unlike to what Saussaure calls “paradigmatic axis” of unidimensional definitions of either individual or collective self, the “correspondence discursive construct” is contextual-bound. Hence, it is perpetually de/re-conststructed by the antithetical forces between (1) the ideational and situational contexts or (2) the individual or collective self. Inspired by both Molawi and the Heidegerian presumptions that the ideational self is unvoluntarily “thrown to” and “delivered over” to the “corporal” or “situational,” he/she/or they remain persistently positioned to be “thrown-away” of them. Nonetheless, the self is evolved within corporal or situational. Due to this inherent contextuality, I named this connstruct as “discursive identity.” It is to be noted that this intellectual construct gives the priority to individual will to define the self or accept a definition of the self. As such, discursive identity deconstructs both primordial or institutional definitions of identity, as suggested by either traditional or modern philosophers.
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