I'm interested in three modern philosophies that overlap a lot: Existentialism, Nihilism, and Absurdism. I could be wrong here, but it seems they all start with the same idea--life doesn't have any ...

Does radical subjectivity lead to freedom or imprisonment? Although it is difficult to interpret precisely expressions of enthusiasm for certain ideas or to measure and record the motions of opinion ...

Living together in the Absurd
Making sense when the world doesn’t make sense
 Workshop
Tuesday 21 April 2026Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics In collaboration with 
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We would like to announce a call for papers for our panel proposal for the 2017 MLA conference (Phladelphia, PA, January 5-8, 2017). This panel will explore new approaches to the study of the ...

Beckett’s creation incarnates everything that “Theater of the Absurd” has come to represent. Two hobos, Estragon and Vladimir, are waiting for Godot (pronounced in the production GOD-oh). They have an ...

Pessimism is back. That will not surprise anyone who has been keeping track of the nation’s pulse over the past several months — or perhaps the last several years. Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech, ...