absurdity

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Absurdity (from Latin absurditas in the same meaning, to absurdus = "jarring", also translated: "inconsistent", "incapable", "clumsy") denotes something absurd or nonsensical.

This can be an extraordinary, abstruse, contradicting logic , or strange occurrence or phenomenon to which the mind of the individual, contrary to its habit , is unable to give meaning or meaning .

Two ancient synonyms are madness and madness . For their etymology, see the article Joke .

Absurdity in art and literature

In the 20th century brought the absurd theater , the futility , senseless acts of senseless events, the healthy sense contradictory, even on stage.

The absurd is a central concept in the philosophy of Albert Camus and describes the constellation between the sense seekers and sinnverneinenden world.

Authors in whose thinking the concept of the absurd plays an important role:

Intellectual currents in which the concept of the absurd plays an important role (e):

Other uses

Absurdity is sometimes used in advertising , see absurd advertising .

Quote

"The absurd only makes sense insofar as you don't come to terms with it."

- Albert Camus : The Myth of Sisyphus

"The absurd, presented with taste, arouses aversion and admiration."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : maxims and reflections

Web links

Wiktionary: absurdity  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Duden-online
  2. online Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, Volume 1. Altenburg 1857, p. 58