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Shazhinbatyn, A.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Ethno-Anthropological Concept
// Philosophy and Culture.
2014. № 1.
P. 123-131.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=63778
Shazhinbatyn, A. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Ethno-Anthropological Concept
Abstract:
The author of the article analyzes ethnomethodological concept offered by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
The author underlines that the philosopher had a very singular concept of the phenomenology of ethnos. His
views on that matter differed from the Eurocentristic concept created during the age of Enlightenment in
the XVIII century. Based on ethnographic researchers, Rousseau created a completely different definition
of human self-identity. The French philosopher disagreed with Descartes who believed the internal efforts
towards improvement of «Self» to be the grounds for the process of self-identity formation. Rousseau
assumed that human’s self-concept of himself and an ethnos’ concept of its essence could not exist without
other humans or ethnic units. The concept of «Self» is narrowed because by accepting the image of the other
person, an individual realizes that his concepts and ideals are limited. It is true for an ethnos, too. Human
tries to see himself as a reflection of the other creature or culture. This is why Claude Levi-Strauss used to say
that Rousseau was the founder of the humanities. The idea of self-recognition of human himself as well as the
other culture described by Rousseau was then developed in terms of Post-Modernism philosophy.
Keywords:
philosophy, culture, identity, ethnos, human, ethnography, ethnomethodology, Eurocentrism, difference, rationalism.
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