The absurd as the aesthetical “existentialia” of the postmodern subject

Abstract

The article discusses functional and ontological aspects of the absurd in contemporary philosophical tradition. The renouncement of the position of a unified worldview with its mixing of different 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. The 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. The 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.