COLISION LONELINESS AND COMMUNICATION: THE EXISTENTIAL EXPERIENCE OF WAR

Abstract

The article examines loneliness as a consequence of communication collision through the lens of πόλεμος. This age-old struggle lies at the heart of existence. War presents a permanent limit situation in which human existence encounters its highest level of vulnerability and internal tension. From this perspective, loneliness and communication appear as polar yet interdependent modes of human experience, where the former manifests as a state of personal alienation and breakdown, and the latter – an attempt to find meaning in one’s own existence and restore connection with others. Both phenomena emerge as significant elements of πόλεμος, and their interaction highlights the marginal level of existence.
The analysis, based on the ideas of M. Heidegger, K. Jaspers, and S. Kierkegaard, demonstrates that war creates a crisis which disrupts the normal order of daily life. In these circumstances, individuals urgently need to find inner balance and preserve their personal integrity. In this context, loneliness becomes a space for a person to comprehend their own limits and a prerequisite for genuine dialogue. K. Jaspers’ concept of Grenzsituation is based on the idea that struggle, death, guilt, and chance in the borderline experience of war reveal the hidden potential of human existence, defining the horizons of personal growth. In this perspective, communication is viewed as an encounter in which the mutual creation of selves occurs.
N. Khamitov’s views on inner loneliness and self-identity are highlighted as keys to realising that proper communication is possible only on the condition of personal monolithicity. The study demonstrates that only those who can accept their own loneliness can enter into communication without losing themselves.
The article emphasizes that in wartime, the phenomena of loneliness and communication create a dialectical unity, testing the depth of human existence and its truthfulness. War, as a concentrated manifestation of polemics, contributes to the exposure of the structure of human nature, where the desire for unity and community arises from the awareness of personal alienation, and loneliness and communication are in a state of constant struggle.