absurd
Title: absurd
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 361 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
absurd
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 361 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Absurd:
The Absurd is a much misunderstood philosophical category, primarily due to its sense of linguistic finality both in French and English. To use the expression "that's absurd!" brings with it an automatic negative judgement and a feeling that all further discussion is thereby closed.
For Camus, "absurdity" is the given premise of all modern experience, an uneasy feeling, above all, a sense of contradiction, and is only the begining of a perception of life,
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for the terrible "weight and strangeness" of the world as experienced by every human being. The feeling of absurdity is "the separation between man and his life", an actor walking out on stage and not recognizing the scenery or knowing the lines of the play he is supposed to speak, a sense of permanent displacement and un-belonging.
theory or knowing the lines of the play he is supposed to speak, a sense of permanent displacement