John Vervaeke's philosophical framework — developed primarily through his YouTube lecture series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis (2019) — describing the historically traceable loss of meaning, connectedness, and participatory knowing in modernity — the most systematic contemporary philosophical diagnosis of existential alienation.
Creates the most rigorous historical-philosophical account of modernity's meaning loss — Vervaeke traces the Meaning Crisis through the axial age, Neoplatonism, Christianity, the Scientific Revolution, and Romanticism, arguing that modernity lost contact with participatory knowing (knowing as transformation of the knower) and the religio-mythological framework that provided self-transcendence; his account uniquely synthesizes cognitive science, philosophy, and contemplative traditions.
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