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Is Human Life Absurd?

Philosophia, 2018
This essay examines whether or not absurdity is intrinsic to human life. It takes Camus’ interpretation of ‘The Absurd’ as its conceptual starting point. It traces such thought back to Schopenhauer, whose work is then critically analysed.
Billy Holmes
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Considering Old Age and the Absurd in Harold Pinter’s A Slight Ache

, 2018
This article seeks to launch an inquiry into the interplay between the philosophical concept of the absurd and different theories of aging in Harold Pinter’s radio play A Slight Ache.
Querido, Pedro
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The Timely Rise of a Teenage Reformer: Youth Revolt, Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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Donald Trump - an absurd person?

, 2016
Donald Trump - an absurd ...
Toby Miller (1383852)
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Le vertige intertextuel. Une lecture de Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête

Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises, 2019
By questioning the presence of the work of Albert Camus in the novel Meursault, contre-enquête (Barzakh, 2013 and Actes Sud, 2014) by Kamel Daoud, the marks appear of a political and poetic commitment that arises today as yesterday from a concern due to ...
Veronic Algeri
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The Doctrine of State Necessity

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article examines the doctrine of state necessity as a distinct but relatively underexplored doctrine of constitutional law. Drawing on case law from a range of jurisdictions, it considers instances in which courts have accepted otherwise unconstitutional measures as lawful in order to preserve the operation of state institutions or protect ...
Athanasios Peftinas
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“OPTICAL ILLUSIONS” OF HARMS AND ORKENY. MINUTES-ESSAYS ABOUT THINGS THAT MAY BE ABSURD

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2016
The essay is devoted to understanding such complicated philosophical and cultural categories as “absurd” and “grotesque”. Author reflects on them through the literary text by Erken and Harms.
Zs Heteni
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The Absurdity of Hope: A Philosophical Exploration of Camus' Concept of Living with the Absurd

Wah Academia Journal of Global Religions
Albert Camus, a prominent philosopher in existentialism, offered a groundbreaking perspective on human existence through his concept of the absurd. In his works, particularly The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Camus defines the absurd as the conflict between ...
Osagie Sylvester AIMIEHINOR
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Revisiting the avant-gardes

Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 2019
The tome written by Paul Cernat, a known specialist of the avant-gardes, analyzes the anatomy and human blueprints set out by the Romanian and European avant-gardes found under the immediate influence of the symbolic year of 1933.
Marius Mihet
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Irony as Expression (of a Sense of the Absurd)

, 2018
Situational irony is, first, explained as a severe violation of one or more established, non-moral norms; such violation constitutes that situation’s absurdity. The classical “inversion” theory of communicative irony associated with Cicero and Quintilian,
Mitchell S. Green
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