PHILOSOPHICAL AND CULTUROLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CONCEPTUALIZATION OF QUEER IDENTITY

Abstract

The aim of this paper is a philosophical and culturolocical understanding of queer identity as a subject of polemical discourse, in which apologetic and critical theories cooperate.

Research methodology consists of an interdisciplinary synthesis of culturology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, political science, art history, ethics and comparative studies. The main methods are structural-analytical and comparative.

Results. It has been found that sexual queerism can be intertwined with racial, ethnic, socio-class and other types of marginalization, which shifts the problem from a purely gender discourse to a culturalist one. Culturalism has its advantages (a comprehensive view of the Alien) and disadvantages (masking the basic social trauma by other factors).

Novelty. Of the work is that for the first time in the culturological discourse of identity theoretical approaches to representation are characterized: reflective, intentional and constructivist, within which queer identity is interpreted as a culturally (symbolically) determined plurality of imaginary genders and real sexes.

The practical significance. We interpret the term «queer» as a pattern of identity in culturological discourse: to denote not only representatives of previously taboo by paternalism non-traditional sexual identities that have been pushed to the borders of culture, but also any manifestations of informal, marginal, borderline, improvisational, nomadic type, which does not fit into the classical formulations and frameworks of positivist definitions and corresponds to the liquid structure of the rhizome, more precisely, its missing structure, its fluidity and diffusion.