Abstract

VELAZQUEZ GONZALEZ, Juan. Analysis of pandemic fatigue as present existential feeling relying to Heidegger’s and Levinas’ phenomenological descriptions. Estud.filos [online]. 2023, n.67, pp.43-63.  Epub Jan 24, 2023. ISSN 0121-3628.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ef.349363.

The event of the pandemic started in 2020 fed an affective phenomenon known as pandemic fatigue, medically near to “chronic fatigue syndrome”. Psychological explanation of the phenomenon provides a first approach, that is enriched with phenomenological description and analysis of it as existential feeling in the present. This term stresses the bodily reference of the kind of existential moods displayed by Heidegger and contributes to better description of fatigue phenomenon relying to Levinas’ study. Present and profound fatigue is therefore shown as a feeling of tiredness that ties existence to a no-being-possible or no-being-able for oneself to do what it was possible before, i.e. in the pre-pandemic past. Besides the description, phenomenological analysis of the bond between profound boredom -as studied by Heidegger- and pandemic existential fatigue stresses different levels in the ontological understanding of this last one and its harmful feature.

Keywords : pandemic fatigue; existential feeling; profound boredom; phenomenology; Heidegger; Levinas.

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