 | Donald A. Crosby - Philosophy - 1988 - 474 pages
...the West. 8 Chapter Q God's All-Seeing Eye, Search for Certainty, and Deprecation of the World ... in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights,...memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.... | |
 | Joseph C. McLelland, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - Religion - 1988 - 385 pages
...life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights,...the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.3 There are plenty of "bad reasons" around, similar to the "bad faith" of Sartre. Only "blind... | |
 | Michael J. Perry - Political Science - 1991 - 234 pages
...necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, ... in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights,...memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity."... | |
 | Jeffrey C. Isaac - Political Science - 1992 - 340 pages
...life of modern man loses its grounding. As Camus put it, "It happens that the stage set collapses ... in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights,...memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity."114... | |
 | Robert C. Solomon - Law - 1995 - 350 pages
...life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights,...memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. (The Myth of Sisyphus) In his popular novel, L'Etranger (the stranger), Camus suggests a more Stoical,... | |
 | Ulrich H. J. Körtner - Religion - 1995 - 390 pages
...however, there is no escape, and not even the possibility for flight through hope, since human beings "are deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land."319 The idea of the absurd emerges through alienating experiences, through the perception that... | |
 | Wessel Stoker - God - 1993 - 276 pages
...describes the human being as a stranger: "But ... in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and light, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without...memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity"... | |
 | Marius Buning, Matthijs Engelberts, Sjef Houppermans - 1997 - 456 pages
...For Camus the two major factors of absurd existence are estrangement and the spectre of death: [...] in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. [...] This divorce between man and his life [...] is properly the feeling of absurdity. All healthy... | |
 | Michael J. Perry - Political Science - 1998 - 171 pages
...necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But,... in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights,...memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity."... | |
 | Eric S. Christianson - Religion - 1998 - 314 pages
...problem: A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights,...memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land . . . [and] there is a direct connection between this feeling and the longing for death. For many that... | |
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A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of... 
