THE PROBLEM OF UNDERSTANDING IN PHENOMENOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF EXISTENTIAL CHALLENGES OF THE PRESENT TIME
Contemporary phenomenology considers language an ontologically significant phenomenon that substantiates positing of sense and understanding as fundamental characteristics of human existence. Current sociocultural situation creates new existential challenges, the paradox of which lies in the combination of the monological strategies, which are close to perfection, and “crisis of metanarratives”, which means distrust of the monological word. One of the specific existentially significant features of the modern society is also the creation of virtual reality that, at the same time, provides new space for dialogue and understanding and serves as successful translator of monological strategies.