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On Albert Camus’s Theory Of Absurdity

Posted on:2015-10-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y L ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330467461523Subject:Literature and art
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Albert Camus is a famous French writer, philosopher and literary theorist with a great influence in the world. His writings not only involves the field of literature and philosophy, but also involves religion, history, the unity of politics. They had a profound effect in the world. He is regarded as the youth mentor. Throughout his entire creation and research career. He is starting from the realistic living conditions of people, to reveal the problems and tries to find a way out. In his life, people faced shake of rational civilization, civilization of science and technology on people’s status and value of threat. Camus remains close attention to this problem, in his works of literature and philosophy shall be revealed and discussed. In the research and thinking, Camus always from the standpoint of the humanism, he didn’t make the abstract philosophical thinking. He made a concrete analysis of each specific question. His thoughts on the absurd problems come from the unity of the human basic starting. He discusses various conditions that reach such a demand and the factors which hinder its realization. Then he deduce the absurd place which the modern humans face. After revealing the absurd, he proposed the life attitude of living with the absurd. He opposed the two tendencies of mainstream:one is to obliterate the human life carrying the absurdity; the other is to obliterate the human spirit that realize the absurdity, that is the philosophy Dutch act. The attitude Albert Camus advocates the life is clearly facing absurd, He try as much as possible to explore the world and the development of human beings in spite of the limitation of all fields. On this basis, Albert Camus reviews the resistance to something that hinders the development of human beings, then he develops his philosophy of resistance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Humanism, uniformity, absurd, defiance
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