| Summary: | The paper deals with the presentation of Tomas Luckman's theory of personal
identity. After defining the concept of personal identity and description of
Luckmann's approach as an interdisciplinary and dialectic, attention is
shifted to the elaboration of the influence of different levels of reality
on the construction, maintainance and transformation of personal identity.
The explanation starts from the given biological base and evolution of the
human organism, and continues at the level of individual consciousness and
intersubjective level of face-to-face relationships, where the importance of
different temporal structures is especially emphasized. Finally, structural
determinants of personal identity are being put under consideration. Within
this last level, following Luckman, the conditions for the formation of
personal identity are compared in “archaic” and modern societies, conceived
as ideal types. Luckman's deliberations on personal identity in modernity
are compared with Giddens' theory of personal, that is, self-identity in
modernity. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 179074: Tradicija, modernizacija i nacionalni identitet u Srbiji i na Balkanu u procesu evropskih integracija]
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