Abstract
The theme of Absurd, like all great themes in history of ideas, has its historical occasion. In case of Absurd, it is what Nietzsche's madman had called the death of God. Who can read Heidegger's description of our abandonment in universe, Camus' depiction of our confrontation with silence, and Sartre's words about our utter contingency, absence of justification for our lives, and not hear reverberations of fallen God? These existentialist thinkers are responsible for prominence of theme of absurdity, and theirs are voices of desert: their descriptions and judgments would be hardly comprehensible apart from this landscape of spiritless light. If human existence is now to
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