Crisis and Transformation of the Public Sphere: A Study on Rights, Identities and Subjectivities

Abstract

While identity imposes itself from outside and is a condition for existence in the public sphere, it exhibits a structure that transfers most of its characteristics to the subject. As a result of the change in the social structure, the subject manifests itself as a social institution with autonomous and difference demands. In doing so, it uses democracy as the most important tool. Democracy and the emphasis on difference, which are the result of the effort to achieve the collective good, have become the subject's means of oppression. The aim of our study is to analyse the process leading towards a new human being with strong subjectivity and a new society accordingly. In this article, the literature on the subject is analysed on the basis of identity, subject and rights. The transition of the rights articulated with identity to the subject has been tried to be revealed. What can be done about the demands that will problematise the existing practices of integration and coexistence in social life and suggestions for solutions are presented.