When the silent universe speaks. Testing Camus’ notion of the absurd in the alien encounters of "Contact" and "Arrival"
Albert Camus' concept of absurdity - as articulated in his works The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, and The Rebel - outlines a metaphysics of inherent struggle between the human mind that strives for unity and clarity and an inhumanly silent universe. When an absurd mind realises its own inesc...
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Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics)
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Aesthetic Investigations |
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| Online Access: | https://www.aestheticinvestigations.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/180 |