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Philosophical concept

The absurd

For Camus, the absurd arises from the confrontation between the human demand for clarity and the world’s silence; it names a tension to sustain, not proof that every action is futile.

Works
4
Passages
31
Thinkers
1
Traditions
1

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For Camus, the absurd arises from the confrontation between the human demand for clarity and the world’s silence; it names a tension to sustain, not proof that every action is futile.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 31 passages across 4 works, including Caligula, The Misunderstanding, The Myth of Sisyphus. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

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Works where the concept is identified

  1. CaligulaAlbert Camus · 4 passages
  2. The MisunderstandingAlbert Camus · 3 passages
  3. The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus · 13 passages
  4. The StrangerAlbert Camus · 11 passages