Albert Camus once accused Soren Kierkegaard of committing “philosophical suicide” primarily because Kierkegaard—according to Camus—does not have the courage to remain in the tension and ‘painful opposition’ of ‘the absurd’: “what I am offered neglects [the absurd’s] basis, negates one of the terms of the painful opposition, demands of me a resignation.” (Camus, Myth of Sisyphus, p. 41). To give a very quick crash course: what Camus refers to as ‘the absurd’ can be thought of as a place where ...