Metaphysics and Absurdity
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Product details:
- Publisher UPA
- Date of Publication 16 November 2012
- ISBN 9780761860235
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages212 pages
- Size 231x150x18 mm
- Weight 318 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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. This book compares philosophical prose with the fiction writing of four major absurdist writers?Camus, Sartre, Ionesco, and Beckett.
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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.?
Metaphysics and Absurdity is a powerful reminder that the great metaphysical traditions are not merely abstract exercises the point of which is to scratch some perverse and intellectually rarified itch; rather, the traditions are themselves driven by a deep-seated and widely shared human longing to uncover meaning and value in a world in which they often feel out of place. Blocker?s ability to strike this note and make this connection is reinforced dramatically by his fluency in a remarkably wide range of philosophical traditions, including both Eastern and Western Philosophy, and, within the latter, the analytic and continental traditions.
Table of Contents:
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER TWO: CAMUS
CHAPTER THREE: SARTRE
CHAPTER FOUR: IONESCO
CHAPTER FIVE: BECKETT
AFTERWORD
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Metaphysics and Absurdity
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