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the relationship with time in Modernity and a possible symptomatology of pandemic times

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article, our problem is linked to the relationship between man and time in Modernity, as thought by Lima Vaz, Beckett, Rosa, Han, Souza and Bauman. According to them, our general objective is to map pathological symptoms of this relationship to time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our research method is analytical-descriptive in a critical fashion. As a result, we explore the notion of time as central to elucidating contemporary philosophical problems, such as immanentization and the ontological weight given to existence. With the Irish playwriter, we reflect upon the flow of time and the metaphysical-religious disillusions of today's man. In the context of the acceleration of arts and the intensification of technopolitics, we examine exhaustion and emptying in modern times, and, especially, during social isolation. In turn, through the Polish sociologist’s theory, we look at the contrast between the solid world and our liquid one, as well as their impacts on human relationships. In our final remarks, we propose a return to admiration and astonishment, in Aristotelian terms, as a remedy against the nihilistic boredom and anguish which hover our current life.