"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness"
Several works deal with the English word “nothingness”, which comes from
the above quote by Samuel Beckett on absurd theater. In contrast to
the German term “Nichts”, the English word
gives “nothingness” a kind of essence. It thus expresses more than the
mere absence of things. According to Heidegger, it forms a fundamental
dimension for the understanding of being. Man brings nothingness into
reality (Sartre) and thus possesses the awareness of the freedom of his
existence.
