Event of Freedom in the Contemporary World

The article discusses the significance and comprehension of freedom in the rapidly changing contemporary world. Unprecedented degree of individual independence and personal autonomy has been achieved, but this fact does not exclude the striving and search for the ways to gain freedom. The author presents the approaches defining a free subject as an effectively acting individuality, as a personality who surveys social practices and resists the dominant discourse, as a hyper consumer. Analyzing the concept of free subject, it is possible to reveal a tendency indicating that the achievement of independence and autonomy of an individual leads to the emergence of various kinds of contradictions, which become the basis for the emergence of new forms of dependence. The feature of modern forms of dependence is that with an unprecedented degree of individual freedom, new difficulties arise in finding their own identity. The problems of personal self-discovery, individual development are still relevant. The inaccessibility of freedom is considered as the basis for its presence since the search and striving for freedom constantly requires individual efforts contributing to the revitalization of unique forms of being. Other modes of consciousness are considered in the process of researching M. Bakhtin’s doctrine on “participatory consciousness” and K.J. Wojtyla’s teaching, which presumes that the consciousness of actions is not related to the processes of cognition, but it is expressed in the opportunity to feel himself the cause of action, to experience the authorship of this type of activity. Freedom as a way of the implementation of the being is expressed in Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the “sense-event.” Thus, freedom serves as the basis for everything that may happen, starts a new series of events, develops new rules, and, at the same time, is constantly adjusted in the process of personal efforts.

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