CULTURAL IDENTITY AND DECONSTRUCTION
CULTURAL IDENTITY AND DECONSTRUCTION

Summary/Abstract: Cultural Identity and Deconstruction. This paper proposes to approach the problem of cultural identity on the basis of the deconstructionist analysis of the two conceptual components of this combination of terms. Cultural identity appears as a conceptual constellation of the terms „culture” and „identity”, which need to be investigated in the first place. The initial question tackles whether it is still possible to presume the existence of identity in postmodernism connected to the concepts of unity, congeniality and presence, or whether the unifying, identifying attitude is still appropriate? The paper demonstrates how deconstructionist approach overwrites the traditional conceptual systems of identity, culture and cultural identity via the critical analysis of concepts such as „unity”, „sameness”, „origin”, „beginning”, „centre”, „purity”, „presence”, and at the same time criticizes the ethical, political and legal systems which are based on this conceptual language.

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