THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE ІNSTITUTIONALIZATION IN THE LIFE WORLD OF POSTMODERNISM

Abstract

The actual message of this paper is stipulated by the necessity of the scientific reflexion of the new socio-cultural processes under the postmodern conditions. The emergence of the problematic field of the institutional research, launching from the end of the XXth century, testifies to the remarkable growth, which is an evidence of the continual development of the political philosophy, which is focused on the transformation of the values of the individual and the status objectives of the power institutions and the state authority. The research of the institutional processes under the ―conditions of postmodernity‖ is carried out in the range of the systematic analysis and is based on the theories of J. F. Lyotard, J. Deleuze, G. Habermas, M. Weber, D. North, E. Durcheim and other postmodern scientists.
The extraordinary heightening of individuation is described as the consequence of the multiplication and segregation of roles available to – in some measure forced upon, – the individual. The social roles we occupy are increasingly experienced not as natural and fixed representations of the self but as optional appliances. The enlarged domain of reflexive management of the self is the major reason of the appearance of the opposite thinking and self consciousness, which are based on the alternative self-representations, which are evident in the Western world. Individuals and individuation are analyzed with the insertion of the cultural phenomena, intellectual media and postmodern discourses, with the stress on the main contradiction of the institutialization, that is some kind of discrepancy between who and what we have been as well as what we desire to be. In addition, the situation is aggravated with the incongruity of the system of the normative society organization and the life world of individuals. In some cases it is represented in the phenomena of depersonalization, which are given different names in philosophy, literary criticism and cultural studies. Generally speaking it means the crisis of the individual basis of the self. The overall conclusion is focused on the necessity of overcoming the crisis, mentioned above, and the assertion that the growth of the both individual development and society changes depends on the speed of overcoming the effect of the slow transformations of the state institutional organizations.