مفهوم الهوية : النشأة و التطور في تاريخ أوروبا الحديث مقاربة سوسيو-أنثروبولوجية

Abstract EN

The issue of “identity” during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe witnessed a clear development in the concept in the field of language, thought and law, and this development was enshrined in the reality of the socio-cultural and political fields across the countries of the world, especially among the colonized peoples, as a legitimate demand linked and even establishing self-determination through independence.

Identity has also become an existing problem that raises debates in academic circles, especially in social sciences in its various branches, because the concept of identity is one of the complex and contradictory concepts that are frequently used and difficult to define and define accurately.

Therefore, it can be asserted that identity as a concept lies at the crossroads between multiple fields of research and knowledge.

Through this article, we present a socio-anthropological critical reading of this concept, and of the circumstances surrounding its resurgence in modern history in the world in general, and in Europe in particular, because of the importance of this continent in the philosophical and intellectual transformations accompanying the political and cultural reshaping of the world.

Accordingly, this research is a socio-cultural approach to the concept and path of identity formation and the most important historical stations and paths that helped in its formation.