Absurd - Refraction Of The Human Spirit

Absurdity is a very important category in 20-century western esthetics. It is a kind of spiritual phenomenon for human being. It is a living style of the western people who fell into dissimilation. When people were being in this living style, they might have a feeling of " the nihilist of the meaning". And this feeling that we may call it experience is the feeling of absurdity. It is a feeling of anxious and empty after the subject finds the apartment between the world and himself, and a feeling of strange and perplexed after the oppression of the object and the collapse of the spiritual believing. Of course, though absurdity perform itself in the way that " the nihilist of the meaning", it doesn't mean absurdity itself is absurd exists. Be used as a kind of esthetics category, the purpose of absurdity is to pointing to the life, and waking up people's consciousness of the worth to exist and the thinking of the meaning to exist for himself. Therefore, absurdity is not a kind of negative esthetics category, but the superficial negativity and deep positiveness combine perfectly.Experienced the baptisms of the two world wars, western people begin to doubt the reasonableness that they believe seriously once. In western society, it appears a second believing crisis after "God died". After western people's spiritual pillar collapses, it appeared an unprecedented hungry situation. Just in this condition, absurdity that is in the esthetics category meaning, obtained emerging and development. The subjects of absurdity are the people who are dishumanlized. They lost the human's innate essence and their characters. Just through these people, we can see the absurd world and absurd life.Being a kind of common phenomenon of human beings'living style in the western society, "absurdity" is a special phenomenon in western history language circumstance in 20 centuries. In 20 centuries, people and world, people and people, even people and themselves are being in an unharmonious situation. Those fearful, helpless, and...