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A Phenomenology of Modern Anxiety

By  Paul R Jones 2025

“Contemporary anxiety—arising from climate change, technological risks, and global instability—offers both a challenge and an opportunity: to retreat into escapism or to authentically engage with the fragility of existence.”

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