Abstract
In this paper, we examine “the human” or “the person” from the standpoint of post-structural or déconstructive orientation. However, this does not mean that this paper concerns higherorder theory level, but does the historicity of “the human”.
We anchor the concept of modernity, and examine the socio-historical context of the emergence of “the human”, through the socio-historical and socio-economical social theory, especially Marx, Durkheim, Elias, Arendt, Otsuka, Nisbet and so on.
In this sociological examination, our concern centers on the “transitional phase” in the Western European history, when rural manufacture was confronted with the absolutist merchant capital and the former overcame the latter through the “bourgeois revolution”.
“The Human” emerged from this phase and was positively and institutionally established in this century.
This paper outlines and examines these processes and suggests some crucial problems that “we are the human”.
