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The English word crisis was borrowed from the Latin, which in turn was borrowed from the Greek κρίσις krisis 'discrimination, decision, crisis'. [1] The noun is derived from the verb κρίνω krinō, which means 'distinguish, choose, decide'.
Existential crises may occur at different stages in life: the teenage crisis, the quarter-life crisis, the mid-life crisis, and the later-life crisis. Earlier crises tend to be forward-looking: the individual is anxious and confused about which path in life to follow regarding education, career, personal identity , and social relationships.
The magazine was established by Stig Larsson and Åke Sandgren in Umeå in 1975. [1] [2] It was first named CODE, and it was renamed as Kris in 1977. [1]The magazine was published between 1977 and 1997 by Föreningen KRIS.
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The critic George Steiner argues that Being and Time is a product of the crisis of German culture following Germany's defeat in World War I. In this respect Steiner compared it to Ernst Bloch 's The Spirit of Utopia (1918), Oswald Spengler 's The Decline of the West (1918), Franz Rosenzweig 's The Star of Redemption (1921), Karl Barth 's The ...
A crisis can have physical or psychological effects. Usually significant and more widespread, the latter lacks the former's obvious signs, complicating diagnosis. [4] It is defined as a breakdown of psychological equilibrium, and being unable to benefit from normal methods of coping. [5]
The book is a brief autobiographical story of the author's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis. It describes his search for the answer to the ultimate philosophical question: "If God does not exist, since death is inevitable, what is the meaning of life?" Without the answer to this, for him, life had become "impossible".
Polycrisis (from the French polycrise or poly-crise), a term originally coined by French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin in his 1993 book Terre-Patrie, [1] describes a complex situation where multiple, interconnected crises converge and amplify each other, resulting in a predicament that is difficult to manage or resolve. [2]