Generation as a life world: the tradition of phenomenological research in generative problems

The purpose of the study is to identify the heuristic potential of phenomenological research for philosophical understanding of generational issues. Scientific novelty. The possibilities of the phenomenological analysis of a generation as a life world with its own sense-making, value orientations, and, therefore, peculiar rules of socio-cultural activity are characterized. A comparative analysis of generational problems in the phenomenological research of E. Husserl, M. Heidegger and A. Schutz is made. The author substantiates the conditionality of phenomenological presentations of generational communities with the solution of problems of temporality, historicity, existential individuation and the foundations of socio-cultural consolidation. As a result, it is concluded that the representation of a generation as a life world allows us to characterize it as a social community, based on common semantic expectations based on the universe of values and meanings being formed, which allow us to form an actual response to the challenges of the actual present.