Keyword: «adulthood»

The article is devoted to the topical issue of a modern person confusion in the face of the "end of history" (F. Fukuyama): large collective projects, that invariably supplied a "historical" perspective to a "private" being, had exhausted themselves by the end of the twentieth century. However, this fact does not in any way cancel the request of individual existence for historical projection: the need for self-projecting of future is the fundamental attribute of human existence; the way of organizing time by individual consciousness (E. Husserl). The ability to handle time becomes today a key condition for authentic (joint-individual and, as a consequence, collective) historical existence. The pulsing present, which includes both the past and the future at the same time, becomes a platform for an "accurate" historical gestalt because of the "temporary fields" imposition (E. Husserl). Each taken separately modern "adult" (E. Erikson) individually experiences the "end of history" as a personal drama (the final resolution of the identity crisis in the "middle of life" (E. Erikson)), in which (with proper treatment of the past as a "fragment" of the present) he finds sources of further growth (a meaningful increase in volume (development of care meta-virtue) and the power of the ego) and personal future projecting. This idea of history (as a collective future emerging from authentic "personal" / local projects) is especially important for Russia, which is still concerned with the search for a "national idea" in the format of a "grand historical project": "the end of history" has come for everybody.