THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY, NIHILISM AND MEANING: LIMA VAZ, AN INTERPRETER OF HIS TIME

Abstract

This article is the first of two studies aiming to investigate Lima Vaz's conception of modernity and of its crisis, the emergence of the nihilism in con­temporary age, and also the search for meaning inherent to the human condition, still alive, despite the current mistrust regarding this philosophical activity. This first part aims to characterize modernity and how it is interpreted by Lima Vaz, as an event transfering the foundation of meaning to the thinking subject. Furthermore, it will also start approaching the issue of the crisis of modernity.