THE PHENOMENON OF IDENTITY IN THE PROCESS OF CONCEPTUAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE TRIAD «MODERN-POST-MODERN-METAMODERN»

Abstract

Purpose of the research. To determine the specifics of understanding the phenomenon of identity in the
sociocultural context of the modern, postmodern, and metamodern eras.
Research methodology. The study uses the following general scientific and specialized (cultural) methods and
approaches: cultural-analytical; historiographical; comparative; interpretative; topological. These methods helped reveal the
specifics of the theoretical justification of identity in the modern, postmodern, and metamodern eras. This scientific and
methodological research toolkit helped to trace the substantive and structural interrelationships between the understanding of
identity in the eras mentioned above. Based on the proposed research methods, it was possible to conduct an analysis of the
interpretation of identity in the modern, postmodern, and metamodern eras.
Results. The study found that identity is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. It was substantiated that the
peculiarities of identity interpretation depend on the historical and cultural conditions and the era within which this
phenomenon is considered. It was revealed that in the modern era, the main features of identity include rationality,
invariance, certainty, continuous permanence, and autonomy. It was established that in the postmodern era, the central
characteristics of identity include segmentation, multiplicity, ambiguity, and situationality. It has been determined that
in the metamodern era, the key features of identity include the following: oscillation, openness, complexity, and ethics.
It has been demonstrated that the understanding of identity in the metamodern era is not a synthesis of the
characteristics inherent in modern and postmodern identity. In the era of metamodernism, identity emerges as a unique
phenomenon that attempts to find a balance or consensus between two frames of interpretation of identity based on
going beyond their boundaries in order to construct an alternative way of perceiving the world.
Novelty. This scientific study provides the first comprehensive theoretical justification for the interpretation of
the concept of «identity» in intellectual projects of the modern, postmodern, and metamodern eras. It systematizes the
central features characteristic of identity in modernism, postmodernism, and metamodernism. This has contributed to
the supplementation and expansion of previous scientific research on the theoretical and conceptual understanding of
the phenomenon of identity.