Endgame to make an argument that the standing definitions of "absurdity"—grounded in Martin Esslin's genesis of the term—are incomplete. The authors here argue that a consideration of Husserl's differentiation between "two possible ways for meaning to be missing" demonstrates that the very essence of theatrical absurdity involves not only a loss of meaning and the distress and fragmentation that such loss invokes, but, crucially, and in equal measure, the experience of such meaninglessness in terms of human endeavour to overcome it." /> Phenomenologically absurd, absurdly phenomenological - McNeilly-Renaudie Jodie; Renaudie Pierre-Jean | sdvig press