A way out of the crisis for the ‘new’ lost generation Y – Ἀκάδημος τελευτής in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Le Phenomene Humain

Abstract

A way out of the crisis for the ‘new’ lost generation Y – Ἀκάδημος τελευτής in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Le Phenomene Humain. – Generation Y, often referred to in the media as the new lost generation, suffers from an existential crisis, a crisis of meaning and environmental grief. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s work Le Phenomene Humain, by synthesizing evolutionary theory and Christian teleology, opens the way to the ‘Ἀκάδημος τελευτής’ (the grove of meaning), accessible even to the generally atheistic or vaguely theistic generation. Y raised in the 1990s, and thus offers a possible way out of the aforementioned crisis.