EXISTENTIALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF THE MEANING OF LIFE IN THE CONDITIONS OF POSTMODERN UNCERTAINTY

UDC 141.7
DOI: 10.36871/ek.up.p.r.2024.11.07.021

Authors

Zhanna V. Fedorova,
Kazan State Energy University, Kazan, Russian Federation

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the existential problem of searching for the meaning of life in the conditions of postmodern uncertainty. In postmodernity, dominated by relativism, destruction of metanarratives and identity crisis, the search for sustainable meaning becomes a difficult task. The paper explores how existentialist ideas about freedom and respon-sibility can be reinterpreted in the context of a fragmented, changing world, and considers the possibilities of forming temporary and situational meanings of life.

Keywords

existentialism, meaning of life, postmodernism, uncertainty, metanarratives, freedom, relativism, identity, fragmentation