„… wenn die Nacht das Denken überkommt"

This monograph reveals basic structural parallels between the ideas of a good life in both Kierkegaard and Camus. Both authors share a range of metaphors on and concepts of experience of the negative, and both conceptualise a good life as not-fleeing, but without a positive concept. The absurd in Camus structurally assumes the position of the other in Kierkegaard, so that how the individual relates to the absence of any criterion becomes the criterion of a good life itself. This thesis is supported by both authors’ respective arguments against suicide. The difference between both conceptions is first and foremost paradigmatic: the idea of man as opposed to the idea of man as absurd.