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Absurdism
Absurdism is a philosophy that emerged from existentialism in post-World War 2 Europe. It is based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless. Martin Esslin coined the term "Theatre of the Absurd" in 1961 to describe plays that used irrational or confusing elements to express the senselessness of the human condition. Key figures included Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Harold Pinter. Absurdist plays often lack rational plot or characters, confuse concepts like time and place, and use repetitive or ambiguous language.
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Irene Caesar is a Russian-born philosopher, mystic, poet and conceptual artist based in New York City. Her early work in Russia in the late 1980s and early 1990s focused on esoteric themes and mysticism. Currently, her art and writing explore both esoteric and exoteric topics. Her most recent project from 2008-2009 is called "A New History of Ideas in Pictures" and uses absurd photography to challenge outdated cultural, moral and political concepts. She is concerned about the emergence of a post-human society with computational biology and nanotechnology slowly transforming humans into bio-computers.
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Theatre of the absurd
Martin Esslin, a theater critic, coined the term “Theater of the Absurd”. The phrase occurred first in his famous book entitled ‘The Theatre of the absurd’ (1962). In order to give a nomenclature to a number of works produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s that defied any traditional genres, Esslin coined the phrase. Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris in 1953.It had been translated into more than twenty languages within five years.
Hippie Movement
The hippie movement began in the 1960s in San Francisco as a youth counterculture that rejected mainstream values and embraced peace, love, and natural living. Hippies were typically young, wealthy individuals who chose a simple, rustic lifestyle focused on breaking down social barriers. They popularized psychedelic drugs like LSD and marijuana as a way to achieve enlightenment and promoted "flower power" philosophy against war and hatred. Musically inspired by artists like Janis Joplin and The Beatles, hippies gathered at events and traveled widely, spreading their ideals through America and the world. However, the commercialization of the movement and problems with drug use led to its decline by the late 1960s.
Existentialism presentation
Existentialism holds that individuals are solely responsible for creating meaning and purpose in their own lives. It focuses on themes of dread, boredom, alienation, freedom, and the absurd. Existentialists believe existence precedes essence, meaning people define their own reality rather than having an essential human nature. Positivism takes a skeptical yet pragmatic approach, asserting that meaningful statements must be empirically verifiable or logically proven. Logical positivism further developed these ideas, proposing a verification criterion of meaning and analyzing moral language as expressions of feeling rather than claims of objective truth.
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Absurdism
Absurdism is a philosophy that emerged from existentialism in post-World War 2 Europe. It is based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless. Martin Esslin coined the term "Theatre of the Absurd" in 1961 to describe plays that used irrational or confusing elements to express the senselessness of the human condition. Key figures included Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Harold Pinter. Absurdist plays often lack rational plot or characters, confuse concepts like time and place, and use repetitive or ambiguous language.
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An examination of Camus' essay The Myth of Sisyphus and the adsurdist school of thought. This is based on the premise that
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Theatre of the absurd
Martin Esslin, a theater critic, coined the term “Theater of the Absurd”. The phrase occurred first in his famous book entitled ‘The Theatre of the absurd’ (1962). In order to give a nomenclature to a number of works produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s that defied any traditional genres, Esslin coined the phrase. Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris in 1953.It had been translated into more than twenty languages within five years.
Hippie Movement
The hippie movement began in the 1960s in San Francisco as a youth counterculture that rejected mainstream values and embraced peace, love, and natural living. Hippies were typically young, wealthy individuals who chose a simple, rustic lifestyle focused on breaking down social barriers. They popularized psychedelic drugs like LSD and marijuana as a way to achieve enlightenment and promoted "flower power" philosophy against war and hatred. Musically inspired by artists like Janis Joplin and The Beatles, hippies gathered at events and traveled widely, spreading their ideals through America and the world. However, the commercialization of the movement and problems with drug use led to its decline by the late 1960s.
Existentialism presentation
Existentialism holds that individuals are solely responsible for creating meaning and purpose in their own lives. It focuses on themes of dread, boredom, alienation, freedom, and the absurd. Existentialists believe existence precedes essence, meaning people define their own reality rather than having an essential human nature. Positivism takes a skeptical yet pragmatic approach, asserting that meaningful statements must be empirically verifiable or logically proven. Logical positivism further developed these ideas, proposing a verification criterion of meaning and analyzing moral language as expressions of feeling rather than claims of objective truth.
Existentialism
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The document discusses existentialism through the lens of Albert Camus and his notion of "the absurd." It summarizes that Camus believed life is absurd and meaningless due to the suffering and injustice in the world. However, Camus argued that people can revolt against the absurd by practicing humane values in their daily lives. Existentialism holds that individuals are solely responsible for their own decisions and actions, and that people strive for meaning and purpose despite life's inherent absurdity and lack of external purpose or design. Existentialism promotes individual freedom and responsibility over social or religious doctrines.
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Existentialism
Existentialism emphasizes concrete human existence, freedom of choice, and responsibility for one's actions. Key existentialist philosophers include Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus. They addressed themes like anxiety, authenticity, absurdity, and the need to define one's own purpose and values rather than rely on external rules. Literature exploring these themes includes works by Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hesse, and Camus that depict individuals grappling with the lack of inherent meaning in an indifferent world.
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The Hippie Movement was a youth counterculture that emerged in the United States during the mid-1960s. It originated from the Beat Generation and had important bases in San Francisco and Berkeley, California. The movement promoted ideals of peace, love, environmentalism, and libertarian socialism. Famous hippies included musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and members of the Grateful Dead and Beatles. Major hippie events included the 1967 Human Be-In and the 1969 Woodstock Festival. However, the movement declined after events like Altamont and due to integration into mainstream society.
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This document discusses existentialism as a philosophy of education. It defines key existentialist concepts like existence preceding essence, and freedom and responsibility. Existentialism holds that individuals are solely responsible for creating their own essence and nature through their choices. The document outlines existentialist views on topics like metaphysics, epistemology and axiology. It also profiles influential existentialist philosophers like Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre and Camus. Finally, it discusses the existentialist approach to curriculum, teaching methods, the roles of teachers and learners.