The Absurdity in Albert Camus's Work
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https://doi.org/10.46502/issn.2792-3681/2021.1.1Keywords:
absurd; Albert Camus; philosophy; hermeneutic analysis; existential process.Abstract
From a philosophical perspective the objective of the research was to analyze the absurdity in Albert Camus' thinking. To this end, the hermeneutic analysis of some texts of this and other authors related to the concept of absurdity was used. In Camus absurdity is a procedure: it is an intellectual challenge, which tries to seek from reason, answers to a state of the soul. It is not necessarily a real, but methodical, absurdity, born of the confrontation between man and the world, that is why absurdity is not an end, but the beginning of a process of individual or intersubjective dialogue or reflection. On this point, the author explains that being aware of our absurd situation is only the starting point. At least existentially it is concluded that, when man becomes aware of the absurdity of his life, should he continue to drag his existence into this world or end his life through suicide? Camus judges that any attempt to escape the absurdity would be to evade the problem. Consequently, man must live according to his absurd condition, becomes in this way a man in absurdity.
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