Metaphysics and absurdity

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Metaphysics and absurdity

H. Gene Blocker

University Press of America, c2013

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注記

Bibliography: p. [185]-187

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The central concern of absurdist writers is the metaphysical distancing of word and object, thought and reality, essence and existence. In this book, Blocker argues that the literary problem of absurdity is basically a metaphysical problem of being, focusing on the metaphysical distinction of being as essence and being as existence. Each of the four central chapters of the book compares philosophical prose with the fiction writing of four major absurdist writers-Camus, Sartre, Ionesco, and Beckett. The book contrasts what Ionesco described as the "heavy" and "light" aspects of absurdity. This opposition is parallel to the contrast between the negative, pessimistic reading of Western writers-with their emphasis on "existence"-and the positive, optimistic view of Eastern, especially Buddhist authors, with their emphasis on "essence."

目次

PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER TWO: CAMUS CHAPTER THREE: SARTRE CHAPTER FOUR: IONESCO CHAPTER FIVE: BECKETT AFTERWORD BIBLIOGRAPHY

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB14361609
  • ISBN
    • 9780761860235
  • LCCN
    2012951795
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Lanham, Md.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xxii, 187 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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