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PHILOSOPHY 201 (STOLZE)
Notes on Thomas Wartenberg, Existentialism
Chapter Six: The Absurd
• The Meaning of Life
• Living the Absurd
• Absurd Thinkers
The Meaning of Life
• Religious vs. non-religious perspectives
Living the Absurd
• Facticity and the absurd
• Kierkegaard’s criticisms of Hegel view that “The real is rational, the rational is real.”
• Camus on the Myth of Sisyphus
• Camus’ rejection of suicide as a solution
Absurd Thinkers
• Thomas Nagel’s criticisms of Camus
• Franz Kafka’s The Trial
• Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
• Ingmar Bergman’s Persona
• Sam Mendes’ American Beauty