Absurdul şi depăşirea absurdului la Albert Camus

Abstract

According to Camus an immanent yearning for conscious lucidity is present in human life. When striving to understand the basic structure of human existence, human beings discover the absurd. The absurd is born from the confrontation between the yearning for clarity and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Camus’ approach it is based on a phenomenological-existentialist method, describing human reality as absurd. The French philosopher adopts the phenomenological method which declines to explain the world, wanting to be merely a description of actual experience.
The absurd, like methodical doubt, can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation. Camus speaks of a deep immanent passion for clarity in consciousness. The absurd forces human beings to reach clarity; the decision to embrace the absurd becomes a test for human beings which wish to lead a life of conscious clarity. The absurd inaugurates the impulse of consciousness, it awakens consciousness and provokes what follows. The sense of the absurd mediates between an inauthentic existence that has failed to acknowledge the absurd as its basic structure on the one hand, and absurd existence on the other. Camus argues that the decision to affirm the absurd is merely the readiness to express, in explicit terms, the meaning of basic human existence. The evidence of reasoning is the absurd; the absurd is the basic datum of existence. That Sisyphus’ «awareness» of the absurdness will help him to wrest meaning from absurdity itself. Is the absurd in this context the problem or the solution?
Camus defines the absurd as the encounter between the human being's innate need for order and purpose and the blank indifference of nature and insists upon the living out of this absurdity in a constant tension of revolt, trying, therewith, the exceed of the absurd through love, live, art. The exceed of the absurd by protesting and rebelling against it, through love, beautifully, live is the message in Camus’ later thought.
This study approaches the problem of absurd in Camus’ philosophy arriving at the conclusion that the absurd is a prerequisite moment for the human. The prevailing path for exceeding the absurd is revolt, whereat is added the human solidarity, the live the life, the art, the love.