THE ABSURD AS THE AESTHETICAL “EXISTENTIALIA” OF THE POSTMODERN SUBJECT

Abstract

Th e article discusses functional and ontological aspects of the absurd in contemporary philosophical tradition. Th e renouncement of the position of a unifi ed worldview with its mixing of diff erent existential paradigms and escalating determination of the public consciousness by the irrational elements of European culture leads to the situation of a single mind’s principal inability to exhaustively understand present reality. Th e absence of noncontroversial relativity between the observable actuality’s structural elements, its principal “non-human dimensionality”, appropriately summons the necessity to produce the new practices of lost personal cognition in the universe`s substantial reconstruction. Featuring the peculiar “existentialia” of the human activity, the absurd pattern expands the essence of being as principally human. Th e interpretation of the absurd as a source of personal creative potentiality, as realized in the Albert Camus`s notion, opens wide perspectives in the comparative study of problematical issues in adjoining academic areas. Refs 3.

Keywords:

postmodern, irony, existentialia, absurd, individuation, the aesthetic