The fundamental crisis of modern economic life is not primarily a crisis of wealth distribution, productivity, or consumption, but a pathology of temporality. Modern economics presupposes a pathological relation to time. What happens when the relationship of Dasein to its own temporality becomes healthy or sick? See further : Cahier 2 – De poëtische rede als een grondslag voor een existentiële economie – ISBN 9789490189037 – Uitgeverij B&CG – Belgium
Messkirch, Friday 29th May, 2026 Modern economics largely operates through a calculative understanding of time. Time appears as a measurable sequence, a homogeneous duration, and a quantifiable horizon for productivity, accumulation, discounting, and expected returns. This paper argues that such economic reasoning already presupposes a structure of temporality that it does not interrogate ontologically. Drawing on Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit, proposes that contemporary economic rationality rests on a reduction of existential temporality (Zeitlichkeit) to calculative economic time. The result…