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Is Camus' "Absurd Hero" the same as Nietzsche's "Ubermensch"?

It seems all these existential philosophers each had their version of an 'ideal man', whether it be Kierkegaard's "Knight of Faith" or Camus' "Absurd Hero". Are each of these visions of an 'ideal man' all one in the same?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Gawd, no. But all such visions manage to annoy me one way or another; they have that in common, anyway. I wonder at your capacity to engage with them; I haven't the patience for it. Superficial analysis isn't always error, though, so I'm not gonna re-read 'em.

Nietzsche--does he really belong in this question?--bothers me the least. An easy man to pity. Unfortunately, his work I do have to re-read now and again. He seems to impress a lot of boys whose adolescence isn't so practiced as his is, and I run into them, with their interpretations of Zarathustra or Beyond Gummi Bears and Evil.