There is an unbridgeable controversy between the functionalist
sociologist who anchors his theories on society and the group, and
the existentialist who bathes his thoughts on the individual.
Durkheim and Parsons, as well as many contemporary American
sociologists, are adjustment based in the sense that all those
individuals who rock the boat even if they are creative innovators
would be labelled deviant or mad. The existentialists, from
Kierkegaard to Buber, regard the individual as the focus of life;
they see philosophy and society as at best a curbing
control-structure and at worst coercing, stigmatizing and
ostracizing. The present volume treads in the giant footsteps of
Albert Camus who saw the absurd as the conflictual encounter
between the individual and society. Society and the Absurd attempts
to overcome this deep sociological controversy by investigating
absurdity through the prism of an interdisciplinary theory of
personality.
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