Vulnerability and care: keys to an existential sustainable society?

Adolescence is a phase of life when existential loneliness - an experience related to suffering - may occur for the first time. During adolescence thoughts about meaning and identity are central for the young person. In this short paper, I reason about how the understanding of existential loneliness during adolescence (which is the topic of my PhD-project) can be related to central concepts in the understanding of existential sustainability - such as place, time, and identity - and ultimately to vulnerability and care.