Existentialism & the Literature of the Absurd
Tutor: Charlie Blake
Dates/Times: Saturday mornings, 11am to 2pm
Ten weeks, 30th April – 16th July 2022 with two breaks
Venue: Brighthelm Centre Activities Hall, North Road, Brighton. BN1 1YD. With thanks to The Brighthelm Centre for their generous support.
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Suitable for beginners.
This course will focus on the notion of ontological absurdity and its practical consequences in everyday life and revolutionary change. It will consider short texts from, say, The Book of Job to Clarice Lispector, via Sade, Kafka, Kierkegaard, Beckett, Baldwin, de Beauvoir, Borges, Burroughs and others within a broader philosophical context from Kantianism to panpsychism. There will also be consideration of cinema, theatre and the visual arts.