INDIVIDUALISM SI COLECTIVISM – TEORII, METODE ȘI APLICAȚII
INDIVIDUALISM AND COLLECTIVISM – THEORIES, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS

Author(s): Marilena Doncean
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Sciences, Economic history, Social history, History and theory of political science, Comparative politics
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: theory; spirit; liberal; methodological; totalitarianism;
Summary/Abstract: The connotations of the term individualism have been debated many time throughout history, giving it a wide range of meanings, more vague or more precise, depending on those who use it - historians, writers, anthropologists, philosophers of social sciences, politics or political theorists. Each gave it its own meaning and thus integrated it into their work. The promoters of individualism have as their ultimate goal the individual goals and desires, in other words, individualism is the opposite of holism, collectivism, totalitarianism, which support the community objectives of society. The last part of the twentieth century was the period when neoclassical market policies began to dominate the globe. This was due to two series of major events: the crisis of the welfare state and the fall of communism. The triumphalist spirit of this age, present in works such as Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man" was the New Spirit of the New Age. The term individualism was the one that best captured this spirit better than any other.

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