Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. [historical, theoretical, and critical concepts]

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to a philosophical or critical concept that supposes that humanity's attempt to find meaning are doomed due to the chaotic and inexplicable nature of the universe in which we live. The concept was thought to have been embodied in the Theatre of the Absurd, a dramatic genre of the 1950s and 1960s, exemplified in the work of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, among others.