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