Einar Kristian Johan Madsen Zapffe (1899–1990) was a Norwegian philosopher and essayist best known for his pessimistic existential account of human consciousness and its tragic consequences. His core thesis—most fully developed in the essay often titled “The Last Messiah” (Den siste Messias, 1933)—argues that human cognitive capacities overreached their biological function and that various defensive stratagems mask the existential burden this creates. “Zapffe on the tragic” refers to his diagnosis of tragedy as rooted in an unresolved mismatch between human consciousness and the world.
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