PANDEMIJSKI, PRO-STRAŠENI SVIJET. POKUŠAJ FENOMENOLOŠKE ANALIZE ISKUSTVA (I) STVARNOSTI U RADIKALNO PRELAZNOM STANJU
A PANDEMIC, TERRIFIED WORLD. AN ATTEMPT OF A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EXPERIENCE OF REALITY IN A RADICALLY TRANSITIONAL STATE

Summary/Abstract: In the following text, we examine the cosmological, anthropological and ethical aspects of the reality, experience and world which are transformed due to the pandemic outbreak of the Corona virus. In the research, we deal with the changed regimes of the organization of existential and social space, which stands in the sign of anthropo-horophobia. A key feature of the current world situation is the Great Fear, which brings caesura in relation to the course of history so far. This moment is related to the historically already explored Great Fear in Western Europe at the transition from the Middle Ages to the New Age, which is why it served as a referential methodological matrix for understanding the current, transitional world. In addition, two other moments are typical for him: the hypertrophy of emotion (“hyperrealism of fear“) – as opposed to the corresponding reality, which leads to the “dеsintentionalisation“ of the experience; social reconstruction of factual fear and its use as a social binder and thus a temporary “antidote“ to the threatening implosion of an uncontrolled, elemental fear, which would have socially devastating consequences.

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