A Phenomenological Perspective on the Existential Crisis in Contemporaneity

Abstract

This article consists of a phenomenological refection about the indigence of our time. It discusses another understanding of the harm that the current moment has been causing to the human being, when instilling a life model offered since modernity, that involves several concerns, creating new pathologies. It is a historical movement, known as Nihilism, that gave us a “new dwelling place”, one that, paradoxically, shows itself as a non-dwelling-place, a non-place, namely, a strange place. Existing restlessness such as tiredness, stress, anxiety, boredom, melancholy, depression, etc., are present at this place. However, these existencial crisis are interpreted by the natural sciences as something that is solely inherent to the biological body. This interpretation is widely questioned here, since we understand that these phenomena will only be properly understood through the existential analytic of the human existence, since this entity is constituted as a being which temporality is the horizon.