ABSTRACT
From the Latin, absurdus, its lexical meaning in Danish is that which is unreasonable or contrary to the senses.1 The concept absurd occurs most frequently in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Philosophical Fragments, and Fear and Trembling. After this, it is seen a couple of times in The Sickness unto Death and also throughout the journals and papers. That which is designated absurd is beyond human comprehension.2 But more than this, the concept of the absurd expresses the degree to which human understanding is offended when presented with something it cannot possibly grasp.3
