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The Absurd
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The absurd is Albert Camus's name for the confrontation between the human demand that life have meaning and a universe that answers that demand with silence. Camus argues in The Myth of Sisyphus that the absurd is not a property of the world alone nor of the human mind alone but the tension that arises only when the two are held together, and that the honest response to it is neither suicide, which ends the confrontation by ending the questioner, nor a religious or philosophical leap of faith, which ends it by pretending an answer exists.
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