Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 University of Tehran
2 Iranian Research Institute of Philosophy
Abstract
In the belief of Aramesh Dustdar the dominance of religious culture creates a situation that will result in nothing but cultural stagnation and the impossibility of independence, self-foundation, individuality, subjectivity, and human resistance. Therefore, with the concept of religious culture, Doustdar steps in a path from which no way out can be imagined. In this image, culture is a self-contained, static, homogeneous, and integrated thing that does not have any dynamism in it, and the person is stuck in it and is incapable of innovation, activism, and transformation. This article addresses two basic questions; First of all, what identity requirements and consequences has religious culture brought about in the image of a Dustdar? Another question is whether in Dariush Shaygan's approach about the interrelationship of cultures, the relationship between the West and the East, and the connection between tradition, innovation, and postmodernism, can we find answers to the dead ends of Dustdar? The hypothesis of the article is that the result of Dousdar's approach can be considered an identity crisis or even "non-identity" in his intellectual project. It also seems that the intellectual plan of the late Shaygan has the capacity to overcome such a cultural and identity deadlock. By paying attention to a world with a rhizome-like and broken ontology, Shaygan tries to show that in today's times, no single culture alone can meet the needs of modern man, and therefore contemporary man has a fragmented consciousness and is no longer a single-identity being. Rather, it is multi-identity.
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