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Existentialism is Alive and Important! Review of: The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism. Edited by Kevin Aho, Megan Altman, and Hans Pedersen. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 489 pp.

Existentialism is considered as the “past” philosophical trend and lifestyle, the popularity and flowering of which falls on the 40s-70s of the XX century. Also, no one reads the works of existentialists and they fall like dust on library shelves. The peer-reviewed newest handbook on contemporary existentialism challenges these two statements and opens up new ways of existential thinking in the XXI century. Its sections impress with the novelty of the subjects of existential reflection: from methodologies and technologies to the phenomenon of aging and disability.

A Human Being as the Twofold Entety of the Psychological and Ontological Dimensions (Review of the Monograph: Petrushenko, V. (2020). Psychological Ontology. Experience of the Construction of Non-traditional Ontology. Lviv: “the New World-2000”)

      The review is devoted to the analysis of features of a theoretical construction which Victor Petrushenko calls as “psychological ontology”. The review emphasizes the original explanation of the structure of the psychological picture of the human world and its components – forms of empirical knowledge (feelings, perceptions and representations). The author of the monograph analyzes the dynamic interaction of thinking, or the second reflection, with the psychics (the first reflection), as a result of which we distinguish between being and non-being.

Classic Understanding of a Human Being and Its Significance in the Epoch of Different "Posts" (Review of Viktor Petrushenko’s Monograph “A Human Being Who is Searching for Being (Three Talks on the Main Things) ” , Lviv: Publishing House Magnolia, 2019.)

In the reviewed monograph refers to a personality as a sensible and intelligent being, of his knowledge and values, of freedom and consciousness, which are manifestations of the aspiration of a personality towards being. The main way of human existence in the world is to be a personality. Today, there is a danger of levelling the personal beginning of human existence, when the science of man is increasingly naturalized, neurolyzed and computerized. Such a levelling leads to post-humanism and post-humanity. It is on one side.

To Look In Order To Wonder: Phenomenologic and Ethymologic Analysis of a Miracle (Research Article)

In the article about the miracle, the author sketches briefly the history of philosophy of miracle, in which the miracle appears as a manifestation of the significance of being and truth in this world. The miracle is considered from Antiquity (Plato and Aristotle) till contemporary phenomenologists, who are the representatives of the theological or religious turn in phenomenology (Marion, Manoussakis, Kearney).