Search results
Albert Camus was a French-Algerian journalist, playwright, novelist, philosophical essayist, and Nobel laureate. Though he was neither by advanced training nor profession a philosopher, he nevertheless made important, forceful contributions to a wide range of issues in moral philosophy in his novels, reviews, articles, essays, and speeches ...
May 28, 2022 · Albert Camus: The philosopher who resisted despair - Vox. Features. The philosopher who resisted despair. Albert Camus and the search for solace in a cruel age. By Sean Illing...
Apr 30, 2020 · Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) was a French-Algerian writer, dramatist, and moralist. He was known for his prolific philosophical essays and novels and is considered one of the forefathers of the existentialist movement, even though he rejected the label.
Intro. Albert Camus (caMOO) was a French author and essayist, as much a literary figure as a philosopher. Though he never accepted the label himself, he was a major figure in 20 th -century existentialism, a literary-philosophical movement that accepts and even embraces the fundamental meaninglessness of life.
Aug 30, 2016 · Camus wrote only three philosophical works: his dissertation, Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism, The Myth of Sisyphus, and The Rebel. In the latter works, he presented the two main philosophical themes of his intellectual framework: absurdity and rebellion. These works will be given prominence below.
Notes to Albert Camus. 1. The story is told by Aristotle and cited by Plutarch ( Moralia, II, Consolation to Apollonius, 27). 2. In his brief essay, “Remarque sur la Révolte” (Camus 1965, 1682–97), published in 1945, Camus mentioned Being and Nothingness twice while first laying out his idea of revolt. His Notebooks also refer to his ...
Sep 22, 2014 · “To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) wrote in his 119-page philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus in 1942. “Everything else … is child’s play; we must first of all answer the question.”
