Privacy as an attributive characteristic of the modern experience of subjectivity: to the statement of the problem

• Main Author: Ye. V. Khodus
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Publishing House "Grani" 2017-07-01
• Series: Granì
• Subjects: приватность, субъектность, социальная приватизация, новый индивидуализм, эстетизация приватности.
• Online Access: https://grani.org.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/966
• ISSN: 2077-1800; 2413-8738

In this article the research‘s interest focuses on the state of the modern humanities (both domestic and foreign), which demonstrates the recently increased interest to the ordinary consciousness, to the sphere of everyday events, to the illogical (in terms of heuristics «big» social theory) inner world of a person, not to the logical external, what is called the world of formal institutional systems based on instrumental rationality. Current social and cultural situation is such that the objectivity of the world became the objectivity of the people’s life, of the individual world, where the significance of the «biographical model (the so-called enhanced personalization of U. Beck) is implemented to the detriment of collective forms of organization. In the twentieth century, one of the key social problem was the problem of disproportionately increased the power of the state, the market and the suppression of the private sphere, in the beginning of the XXI century is characterized by another social problem - the decline of interest to participation of people in public life, an associate of communication due to the growth trends of social privatization. Privacy in this case becomes the place where I exist for myself. Thus, attempts to change the subject field and conceptual framework of modern social theory under the influence of new value‘s attitudes have led to the emergence of the new theories which focus on the problems of an individual’s perception of reality. Such subjective perception today is quite relevant source of information about this reality. Thus, the problem field of this article is determined by the presence of the following contradiction: between the new ontology of social reality functioning in a mode of axiomatic private / frequent interest and degree of its comprehension in contemporary social theory. Accordingly, in this article research‘s interest is fixed directly on the circumstances theming «reference to the personal / private» as an actual mode of existence of the modern individual who changes the forms of social relations, and the nature of normalized subjectivity, that is fully adapted to the situation of social privatization.