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Absurdism

**Absurdism** is a philosophical position within existential thought that holds that the human drive to seek inherent meaning is in permanent and irreconcilable conflict with a fundamentally indifferent or meaningless world, and that authentic life consists in lucidly accepting this absurd condition while refusing both nihilistic resignation and recourse to transcendental consolations.

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11.3K

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242

Authors

112

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2017–2026

33

Variants

Philosophy Of The Absurd

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Publications

208

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.

David Matza, Michel Foucault · American Sociological Review · 1966 · 1.7K citations

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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.

Louis L. Lunsky · Archives of Internal Medicine · 1966 · 857 citations

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Madness and Civilisation: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.

William D. Wilder, Michel Foucault, Richard Howard et al. · Man · 1972 · 674 citations

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Madness and civilization. A history of insanity in the age of reason

Denis Leigh · Journal of Psychosomatic Research · 1968 · 497 citations

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Fear and trembling ; Repetition

Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong · 1984 · 433 citations

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Authors

242

  1. JW
    John Williams

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    7 publications · 224 citations

    7

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  2. ND
    Norman Dain

    Cornell University, United States

    3 publications · 131 citations

    3

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  3. MF
    Michel Foucault

    Collège de France, France

    3 publications · 2.7K citations

    3

    h-index

  4. RK
    Rafal K. Stepien

    Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

    2 publications · 21 citations

    2

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  5. PH
    Patrick Hayden

    University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 36 citations

    2

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Institutions

112

  1. Singapore Management University

    Singapore, Singapore

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    80 citations

  2. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    124 citations

  3. Freie Universität Berlin

    Berlin, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    26 citations

  4. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    171 citations

  5. New York University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    23 citations

  6. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    158 citations

  7. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    145 citations

  8. University of Virginia

    Charlottesville, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 12 publications · 581 citations

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  2. American Literature

    4 publications · 53 citations

    4

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  3. Religious Studies

    4 publications · 79 citations

    4

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  4. Philosophy

    3 publications · 127 citations

    3

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  5. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

    PPR · 3 publications · 47 citations

    3

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