Pedagogy in the face of kierkegaard's criticism of the "society of effectiveness"

The article is devoted to the analysis of crisis phenomena in modern education through the prism of Søren Kierkegaard's philosophy. The author explores how the dominant paradigms of the "success society", focused on external efficiency, early self-realization, and quantitative metrics, form the phenomenon of "despair under the mask" among successful students. Kierkegaard's philosophical categories ("stages of existence", "despair", "existential choice", "subjective truth") are applied to diagnose the existential vacuum hidden behind external academic performance. The paper argues that technocratic pedagogy risks becoming a tool for alienating a person from his authentic "Self". As an alternative, the outlines of an existentially oriented pedagogical attitude are proposed, the goal of which is not the production of an efficient specialist, but the creation of conditions for the development of a responsible subject capable of internal choice and acceptance of the anxiety of freedom. The scientific novelty lies in the systematic application of Kierkegaardian anthropology to criticize current educational trends and to develop specific pedagogical principles based on it.

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