Manifestations of existential experiences during the collapse of the USSR in Kazakh society

Abstract

This article aims to study the existential experiences of citizens of Kazakhstan during the collapse of the USSR. Researchers on this topic have not conducted a philosophical analysis. The relevance of the chosen topic is primarily due to the fact that the consequences of this period on citizens, their psychology and worldview, which were formed by the existential experiences of that period, have not been fully studied. This political event brought not only new socio-economic conditions to the lives of ordinary citizens, but also existential experiences that are associated primarily with the loss of life guidelines and ideology. In the Republic of Kazakhstan, for an entire decade (the 90–80years), a type of personality was formed that did not meet the Western standard. Thus, the experience of this period largely determined the worldview and values. People have experienced existential anxiety from the realization of their own lives. This is the basis of social relationships, which form the core and ensure the building of higher symbolic personality. The dialectical method allowed us to analyze the formation of personal experience as a complex and rather contradictory process, in which there is a clash of existential and socio-cultural determinants of human existence. The method of typology enabled the classification of certain aspects of personal experience by assigning them to certain types of philosophical teachings. The method of comparative analysis facilitated to identify the similarities and differences between different types of philosophical discourses about the personality and the experience of its development. The method of hermeneutical analysis of texts helped to reveal their general semantic context, in relation to the interpretation of personal experience in various philosophical concepts.